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, he places his work in the tradition of modern philosophy: <\/p>\n What \u201cengenders\u201d the Christian themes that surround the gift, he says, does not at all depend on \u201cthe event of a revelation or the revelation of an event.\u201d The possibility of an event, not its actuality, is sufficient to sketch out the skeleton, and this is what \u201ca certain\u201d Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, a certain Heidegger, Levinas, and Marion were all about: All \u201cbelong to this tradition that consists of proposing a nondogmatic doublet of dogma, a philosophical and metaphysical doublet, in any case a thinking <\/em> that \u2018repeats\u2019 the possibility of religion without religion.\u201d <\/p>\n And so you get: A messianism without a Messiah, eschatology without an end, gift without Giver, all the places filled with glassy placeholders. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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