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NOTES AND COMMENTS

NOTES AND COMMENTS 0 The Editor/Basil Blackwell Ltd, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, USA. NOTES AND COMMENTS ‘the Enlightenment notion of rationality is in grave danger of becoming part of the problem, not the solution’ (p. 1). The ‘linguistic turn’, historical and cultural relativism, modern notions of ‘the self, all affect theology as much as any other intellectual exercise which seeks to interpret texts, written or spoken. The post-modern world belongs with the ‘masters of suspicion’, such as Nietzsche, Marx and Freud and their contemporary offspring, notably Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Lacan. It is the great merit of Tracy’s work that he tries honestly to face this complex and multiple challenge. If modernity has been ‘forced to rethink its Enlightenment heritage on both reason and the s e l f , the post-modem world is marked by a hermeneutical consciousness which ‘lives or dies by its ability to take history and language seriously’ (p. 4). Tracy’s hope is that the ‘hermeneutical turn’, attending seriously through dialogue and conversation to a real and not projected other, may be able to open up all sorts of serious possibilities for critique and retrieval: voices of ‘the other’, in many different manifestations, arising in a dialectic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

NOTES AND COMMENTS

The Heythrop Journal , Volume 34 (1) – Jan 1, 1993
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Copyright © 1993 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0018-1196
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10.1111/j.1468-2265.1993.tb00905.x
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0 The Editor/Basil Blackwell Ltd, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, USA. NOTES AND COMMENTS ‘the Enlightenment notion of rationality is in grave danger of becoming part of the problem, not the solution’ (p. 1). The ‘linguistic turn’, historical and cultural relativism, modern notions of ‘the self, all affect theology as much as any other intellectual exercise which seeks to interpret texts, written or spoken. The post-modern world belongs with the ‘masters of suspicion’, such as Nietzsche, Marx and Freud and their contemporary offspring, notably Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Lacan. It is the great merit of Tracy’s work that he tries honestly to face this complex and multiple challenge. If modernity has been ‘forced to rethink its Enlightenment heritage on both reason and the s e l f , the post-modem world is marked by a hermeneutical consciousness which ‘lives or dies by its ability to take history and language seriously’ (p. 4). Tracy’s hope is that the ‘hermeneutical turn’, attending seriously through dialogue and conversation to a real and not projected other, may be able to open up all sorts of serious possibilities for critique and retrieval: voices of ‘the other’, in many different manifestations, arising in a dialectic

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