Life, Existence, and Culture, or What I Have Learned from Deconstruction
Life, Existence, and Culture, or What I Have Learned from Deconstruction

Summary/Abstract: Taking as a starting point a few key passages in the Gospels about the LastSupper and Crucifixion, the author tries to show how the linguistic machinery of a textreveals its deconstructive aspect – making a call for cultural appropriation on the onehand and resisting this appropriation on the other. This duplicity is also projected ontoan existential level, reflecting the tension between life as an idiomatic aspect of everyhuman endeavor and culture understood as subjecting to shared experience. The mainconceptual impetus of the essay goes against maintaining the sharp distinction betweenlife rejecting an accurate representation and existence with all the reproduction devicesit carries with itself. This analysis, referring to a vast corpus of Derrida’s texts, goes beyonda metacommentary limited to French philosophy or literary studies and can alsobe read as a contribution to a theological interpretation of the Gospels made with thehelp of deconstructive logic.

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