Žana Lika Nansī “kristietības dekonstrukcija” un filozofiskā “nekā-dības ticība”

Within the context of the re-turn to religion in contemporary philosophy, one can say that, on the one hand, this re-turn is not properly religious, representing religion with out belief, as it explores religious themes in a-religious, a-theological modes; yet, on the other hand, it retains a discourse somehow related to “faith”, even if of a strange kind – “faith” in an impossible possibility of some inaccessible alterity opening up within the very limits of infinite finitude of human reason and worldly immanence on purely a-theological premises. A bright representative of such an approach is French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021), and his understanding of “faith”, accordingly, is the main theme of this paper. However, since Nancy’s reflections on “faith” occur within a larger context of his project of “deconstruction of Christianity”, the author of the paper first lays out and systematises some relevant, interrelated themes, such as “dis-enclosure” of metaphysics into “transimmanence”, basic terms and presupposi tions of deconstruction in Nancy’s understanding, his proposed doubling of theism and atheism (resulting in a/theism), and auto-deconstruction of Christianity to world sense, and others. Once Christianity, by its apophatic avowals, including their secular adaptations in recent philosophy, has self-deconstructed the contents of its belief (fides quae creditur), what remains of it is a sheer act of faith (fides qua creditur) – a kind of sola fide faithfulness to faithfulness itself – the adhesion to itself of an aim without an object, the fidelity of reason to the nothing of its own a-theology. This is a “faith of nothing at all”, or “tiny extreme touch of thought laid upon nothing” – nothing, which yet comprises everything. In conclusion, the author offers an “exercise in intertextual ity” – associate Nancy’s understanding of “faith” with related insights of Spinoza, Kant, Vattimo, Dennett, Žižek, Derrida and Bergson.