Gordon, Peter E. - The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Derrida’s writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate. It considers Derrida’s fraught relationship to Judaism and his Jewish identity, broaches the question of Derrida's relation to the Western Christian tradition, and examines both the points of contact and the silences in Derrida's treatment of Islam.

Peter E. Gordon Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard College Professor, Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, & Department of Philosophy   Peter Gordon specializes in modern European Intellectual History from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century.  He works chiefly on themes in Continental philosophy and social thought in Germany and France in the modern period, with an emphasis on critical theory, Western Marxism, the Frankfurt School, phenomenology, and existentialism. MORE >