John, a Postmodern Gospel : : Introduction to Deconstructive Exegesis Applied to the Fourth Gospel.

• Superior document: Biblical Interpretation
• Author: Chatelion Counet, Patrick.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.; ©2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Interpretation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION ONE POSTMODERNITY, DECONSTRUCTION, EXEGESIS -- 1. Achilles and the Tortoise: untraceable meanings -- 2. Expressibility versus inexpressibility -- 3. positions, questions, presuppositions -- INTRODUCTION TWO DIACHRONIC VERSUS SYNCHRONIC EXEGESIS -- 1. The Mysteries of the Fourth Gospel according to Rudolf Bultmann -- 1.1. Diachronic perspective on the historical problem: the Johannine community -- 1.1.1. The danger of diachronic and historical reconstructions -- 1.1.2. Poststructural annotations to historical-critical and diachronic research -- 1.2. Synchronic perspective on the exegetical-theological puzzle: the 'Sache' of John's Gospel -- 1.2.1. Points of departure: Bultmann (postmodern) and Ashton (deconstructive) -- 1.2.2. Revelation as transcendental signifier -- 1.2.3. Narrative approaches to the second puzzle: 'reader-oriented exegesis' -- 1.2.4. Culpepper's view of the 'implied author' -- 1.2.5. Staley's 'victimisation of the reader' -- 2. The implied reader -- 3. Diachronic versus synchronic research -- 4. Further determination -- PART ONE POSTSTRUCTURALISM, POSTMODERNITY AND DECONSTRUCTION -- Chapter One. Poststructuralism and Exegesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The pragmatic variation of poststructuralism: 'reader-oriented exegesis' and the problem of unending semiosis -- 2.1. Weak and strong pragmatism -- 2.2. Roland Barthes' pluralism -- 2.3. Neo-pragmatism: Fish and Rorty -- 2.4. Eco versus Derrida: on the limits of interpretation -- 2.5. Derrida's reception of Peirce: the idea of unending semiosis -- 2.6. Neo-pragmatic orientation on a postmodern deconstructive strategy of reading -- 3. The differential variation of poststructuralism -- 3.1. Langue: the Saussurian basis for positive differentiation.

3.2. Écriture: the Derridean basis for negative differentiation -- 3.3. The DIFFÉRANCE -- 3.4. Conclusions: poststructuralism and poststructuralism -- 4. Poststructural orientation toward a postmodern deconstructive strategy of reading -- Chapter Two. Postmodernity and Exegesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The postmodern in philosophy: the unpresentability of the unpresentable -- 2.1. 'Modern' versus 'postmodern': Habermas versus Lyotard -- 2.2. Figurality -- 2.3. The absence of a meta-language covering all language games -- 2.4. Evaluative remarks on Lyotard's postmodernity -- 3. Postmodern orientation toward a deconstructive strategy of reading -- 3.1. Philosophical orientations -- 3.2. Literary orientations -- 3.3. The postmodern model -- Chapter Three. Deconstruction and Exegesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deconstruction: concepts, notions and motives -- 2.1. Two strategies -- 2.2. Methexis -- 2.3. "Déplacement", supplement and dissemination -- 2.4. "Archè-écriture": the conceptual priority of writing -- 3. Apophatic speech: promise and decay -- 3.1. No negative theology: not-Pseudo-Dionysius and not-Eckhardt -- 3.2. Not-Heidegger -- 3.3. Not-Plato -- 3.4. Conclusion: the apophatic as implicit idea of language -- Chapter Four. A Postmodern Deconstructive Reading Strategy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hermeneutics versus deconstruction -- 2.1. The Gadamer/Derrida debate -- 2.2. Anti-hermeneutic points of attention for the design of a postmodern, deconstructive strategy of reading -- 3. Deconstructive exegesis as an interactive game -- 4. Deconstructive exegesis as methexis -- 5. Deconstructive exegesis as reading of the other -- 6. Deconstructive exegesis as apophatic speech -- PART TWO THE DIFFERENTIAL CHARACTER OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL -- Introduction -- Chapter Five. Logocentrism in the Fourth Gospel -- 1. Logocentrism versus differentiation.

2. Implicit values versus logocentric confessions -- 2.1. The logocentric confessions -- 2.2. Ideal-typical disciples: Martha and the man born blind -- 2.3. The anonymity of the beloved disciple -- 2.4. Overview of the various positions -- 3. Jesus as a postmodern paradigm -- 4. Jesus' έyώ ϵἴμı statements -- 5. The παρoιμίαι in John 16,25 as a Derridean supplement -- 5.1. The 'linguistic elusiveness' of the Johannine Jesus -- 5.2. Jesus' supplementary speaking -- Chapter Six. A Deconstructive Perspective on John 6: The Sarcophagus of the Word -- 1. Flesh as dissemination of a eucharistic practice -- 1.1. John 6 and the Last Supper according to John 13 and the Synoptics -- 1.2. Theory of metaphors -- 1.3. Derrida on the radical metaphoricity of language -- 1.4. Davidson on the non-fitting metaphor -- 2. Presence and absence of metaphors in John 6,26-58 -- 3. The 'différance' of the bread -- 3.1. Hegel and the bread of spiritualised religion (Intermezzo 1) -- 3.2. Derrida and the material remains of the spiritualisation (Intermezzo 2) -- 4. The σάρξ sentences in John 6,51-58 -- 5. The sarcophagus of the Word -- Chapter Seven. The Apophatic Structure of John 17 -- 1. General point of departure -- 2. Arrangement and determination of John 13-17 -- 3. Arrangement of John 17 -- 4. Exegetical overview: windows and mirrors on John 17 -- 4.1. Early-modern readings -- 4.2. High-modern readings -- 4.3. Late-modern readings -- 5. Towards a postmodern perspective on John 17 -- 5.1. Semiotic-rhetorical squares as heuristic means of deconstruction -- 5.2. John 17 as result of the failure of the farewell discourses -- 5.3. The hour of non-speaking -- 6. John 17,1-16: REALITY -- 6.1. John 17,1-8: doxa -- 6.2. John 17,9-16: cosmos -- 7. John 17,17-19: TRUTH -- 8. John 17,20-26: unity -- 9. Conclusions.

Chapter Eight. The Last Word. The Logos in the Beginning: John 21,24-25 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The "implied" author according to John 21,24 -- 3. John 21,24-25 between logocentrism and differentiality -- 3.1. A logocentric reading of John 21,24-25 -- 3.2. A differential reading of John 21,24-25 -- 4. Differentiality and logocentrism -- 5. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of biblical references -- Index of names -- Biblical Interpretation Series.