Heidegger famously asserted that one cannot pray to the God of onto‐theo‐logic. God is here made into a determinate concept, the highest idea of reason, and thereby loses its constitutive transcendence and personhood. To think of God appropriately after Heidegger means to think of God in a way amenable to prayer. It is widely recognized that deconstruction does not fare well on this score as it turns prayer into some form of meditation/contemplation. In response, one ought to look for something between onto‐theo‐logic and deconstruction. In this article, I explore and assess two attempts to do so, by Richard Kearney and William Desmond respectively. I argue that Kearney does not manage to escape the trap of deconstruction because he does not allow for an intimation of God in prayer. This is achieved in a more metaphysical register by Desmond.

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神圣与美学：基尔尼与戴斯蒙德的祷告

海德格尔著名地断言，一个人不能向本体论逻辑的上帝祈祷。上帝在这里成为确定的概念，即理性的最高概念，从而失去了其构成性的超越性和人格。在海德格尔之后适当地思考上帝意味着以一种可以祈祷的方式思考上帝。众所周知，解构主义在此方面的表现不佳，因为它将祈祷转化为某种形式的冥想/沉思。作为回应，人们应该在本体论和解构主义之间寻找某种东西。在本文中，我分别探索和评估了Richard Rearney和William Desmond所做的两次尝试。我认为，科尔尼无法摆脱解构的陷阱，因为他不允许在祷告中暗示上帝。这是由戴斯蒙德（Desmond）在更为形而上学的记录中实现的。