Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska
Studia Religiologica, Tom 57, Numer 1, Ahead of print
Urszula Idziak-Smoczyńska
Studia Religiologica, Tom 53, Numer 4, 2020, s. 289 - 302
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.20.020.13038Idiom and the Name of God
In this article the author follows Derrida’s deconstruction of the Babel tower parable, showing how God’s name is structured by difference, instead of identity. The story of the tower of Babel introduces not only the origin of languages and the necessity of translation, but the ultimate untranslatable – the name. God’s name, hence every name becomes for Derrida another quasi-transcendental, which conditions of possibility (identity) are concurrently conditions of impossibility (difference).