religion

The Division of Religion With Signs Following Victor E. Taylor York College of Pennsylvania. We know what has happened to an activity like religion that has not been able to avail itself of "Kantian" immanent criticism in order to justify itself. At first glance the arts might seem to have been in a situation like religion’s. Having been denied by the Enlightenment all the tasks they could take seriously, they looked as though they …

…concepts, providing a semiosis of religion that moves toward a disfiguring of the "logic of equivalency." Inquiry and disciplinarity, then, become activities linking linguistics disfigurements in an ever-changing sign-network. Art history, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and all corollary disciplines are discursive modalities produced from and delimited by the economy of concepts. From this "division," theory’s successful challenge to religious studies is to make, as Derrida suggests, the "deconstruction" of religion into a religious "discourse."