Modernity in French Thought: The problem of excess from Emmanuel Lévinas to Jacques Derrida

Toward and since the end of the Cold War, there has been an important increase in the practices of religion throughout the world. Although it is unwise to quantify faith, it is clear to all generations born before the 1980s that, after a broad historical movement of secularization from the end of the nineteenth century, religion has once again assumed a central role in society, beginning with the last quarter of the twentieth century. From normative resistance on the part of the Church to communist atheism in eastern Europe, South African apartheid, and South American military regimes; to the…