Abstract

In his philosophical project of a “deconstruction of monotheism,” Jean-Luc Nancy explores the hypothesis that the historical roots of secularization should be traced back to the beginnings of the monotheistic traditions. The secular is not exclusively a feature of modern culture. The complex connections and tensions between secularity and religion in recent decades can only be analyzed effectively if one rethinks the notion of the secular along these historical lines. The author offers a brief introduction into Nancy’s project, before focusing on a theme that is central to one of the monotheistic traditions, Christianity: that of the resurrection. He reads and comments on parts of Nancy’s essay Noli me tangere, an innovative interpretation of John 20.11–18. In dialogue with Nancy he then develops a new view on the resurrection, in which paradoxically death is given a central meaning. This also involves a new insight in the immanence of transcendence. In the resurrection, it is death itself that resurrects. The idea is criticized that death would be vanquished into a life after death – as dominant approach in Christian doctrine has it, thereby expanding the modest little epilogue that the tale of the “empty tomb” actually is in the gospels, to a massive foundation of Christian redemption. Resurrection is affirmed as a life in death as well as a death in life. The resurrection of the mortal, earthly and vulnerable God that Christ is, invites an affirmation of the here and now, of humanity and of the human body: a “yes” to the world, not to an afterworld. Parallel to this analysis, the author takes up Nancy’s suggestion that the resurrection, and in fact the entire gospel, is a parable, and that its “truth” is a parabolic truth: playing with the impossible and the miraculous, in which truth and falsehood become entangled with each other.

摘要

在他的“一神论解构”哲学项目中，让-吕克·南希探索了这样一种假设，即世俗化的历史根源应该追溯到一神论传统的起源。世俗不仅是现代文化的一个特征。只有沿着这些历史路线重新思考世俗的概念，才能有效地分析近几十年来世俗与宗教之间的复杂联系和紧张关系。作者简要介绍了南希的项目，然后重点介绍一神论传统之一的核心主题，即基督教：复活的主题。他阅读并评论了 Nancy 的文章Noli me tangere 的部分内容，对约翰福音 20.11-18 的创新解释。在与南希的对话中，他对复活提出了新的观点，其中矛盾的死亡被赋予了中心意义。这也涉及对超越的内在性的新见解。在复活中，复活的是死亡本身。这个想法受到批评，即死亡将被征服为死后的生命——正如基督教教义中的主导方法所拥有的那样，从而将“空墓”的故事实际上是在福音书中的谦虚小结语扩展到了一个巨大的基础基督徒的救赎。复活被确认为死中的生命和生中的死。基督是凡人的、尘世的和易受伤害的上帝的复活，邀请了对此时此地、人类和人体的肯定：对世界，而不是对来世的“是”。