Minimal theologies critiques of secular reason in Adorno and Levinas. - De Vries, Hent; Hale, Geoffrey (Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press, 2005)
Toward a critique of theology -- A possible internal and external differentiation of Habermas's theory of rationality -- Paradox and aporia in Adorno's philosophy of nonidentity -- The construction of occidental subjectivism: reductio ad hominem versus remembrance of nature in the subject -- The breaking apart of western objectivism and the resurrection of the particular and the ephemeral in the philosophy of history -- Metaphysical experience -- Paradox and aporia in Levinas's philosophy of the ethical-religious other -- Levinas on art and truth -- The dialectics of subjectivity and the critique of objectivism -- Loosening logocentrism: language and skepticism -- From unhappy consciousness to bad conscience -- "The other theology": conceptual, historical, and political idolatry -- Appendix: The theology of the sign and the sign of theology: the apophatics of deconstruction.
Keywords: Adorno, Theodor W., -- 1903-1969.; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Deconstruction; Dialectic; Philosophical theology; Rationalism; Transcendence (Philosophy)