Abstract
SummaryIs there a similarity between contemporary deconstruction and negative theology? To answer this question the philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius is presented as an example of classical negative theology. These comments are confronted with a contemporary decontruction-philosophy. Notions of the philosophy of Derrida are elucidated. Because Derrida has explicicitely discussed his relationship to negative theology.This confrontation yields two results. Firstly, the incomprehensibility is a topic again. We find this in our tradition of mystical negative theology and also in deconstuction. Secondly, decontruction can be interpreted as a radicalization of exteriority. It requests an open attitude toward what is other and alien. In that attitude an ethical, perhaps even prophetical mood can be discerned.
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