Abstract
ABSTRACTThe essay explores the dense etymological nexus that structures Jacques Derrida’s critical examination of religion in ‘Faith and Knowledge: The Two Sources of “Religion” at the Limits of Reason Alone’, with specific attention to the themes and motifs of abstraction versus subtraction, absolution, ‘flection’ (and other words related to prayer, such as ‘inclination’) and reflection, fount, or source, and font. In a final section, it assesses the critical role performed by Derrida’s reliance on etymology not as a form of linguistic ‘fundamentalism’, let alone in an essay that addresses such an issue in the ‘return to religion’, but rather as a flexible, critical resource for allowing thinking and what is called ‘reflection’ to double back on itself.
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