ABSTRACT
Few thinkers receive as much attention as Jean-Luc Nancy, an emeritus professor of philosophy of the Universite de Strasbourg in France. Although Nancy’s account of a deconstruction of Christianity is in consequence of secularization, it by no means seeks to convey that such secularization is the truth of religion. Nancy regards modernity, in line with the thinking of Marcel Gauchet, as the culmination of a thoroughly Christian culture. But such a creation evidently testifies to our Christian provenance, in that it retains from Christian tradition precisely the idea of a creatio ex nihilo. Our contemporary world is, then, within and without Christianity at the same time. For Nancy, if atheism forms a horizon—and finitude conditions as it were all thought of infinity—it is on the contrary necessary to liberate ourselves from such limitations on all thinking of infinity and world.
