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
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