Fitzpatrick, Peter --- "Gods would be needed... Derrida on law and religion" [2019] ELECD 2578; in Sandberg, Russell; Doe, Norman; Kane, Bronach; Roberts, Caroline (eds), "Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 192

Book Title: Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion

Editor(s): Sandberg, Russell; Doe, Norman; Kane, Bronach; Roberts, Caroline

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Gods would be needed... Derrida on law and religion

Author(s): Fitzpatrick, Peter

Number of pages: 14

Abstract/Description:

This chapter explores the work of Derrida on law and religion by the means of exploring and cumulatively collecting three sets of affinities: (1) the affinity between Derrida’s deconstruction and law, taking deconstruction as the focal idea in Derrida’s thought and taking law as a telling instance of it; (2) the affinities between law and religion, which show that elements associated with religion are also found in law; and (3) the affinities between religion and law.