Margins of religion : between Kierkegaard and Derrida / John Llewelyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Llewelyn, John, 1928- author.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Derrida, Jacques.

Physical Description:

xiv, 470 p.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pursuing Jacques Derrida's reflections on the possibility of "religion without religion," John Llewelyn makes room for a sense of the religious that does not depend on the religions or traditional notions of God or gods. Beginning with Derrida's statement that it was Kierkegaard to whom he remained most faithful, Llewelyn reads Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Deleuze, Marion, as well as Kierkegaard and Derrida, in original and compelling ways. Llewelyn puts religiousness in vital touch with the struggles of the human condition, finding religious space in the margins between the secular and the religions, transcendence and immanence, faith and knowledge, affirmation and despair, lucidity and madness. This provocative and philosophically rich account shows why and where the religious matters.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part One

1 On the Borderline of Madness

Absolute Wisdom

The Higher Madness

The Limits of Reason

Madness

Imprudence

Passion

2 Stay!

Inward Peace

Secrecy

Loves

God, If You Wish

3 Philosophical Fragments

Savings

No Time to Waste

Aufhebung

Choice

Religion

Unsafety First

4 Standstill

Absolutes

Faith Works

Midlife Pause

Eppur Si Muove

Salvation

5 Works of Love

The Lily and the Dove

A Daffodil

Coram Mundo

Part Two

6 Between Appearance and Reality

Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

Redemption through Art

Herd Morality and Hard Morality

Truth and Free Will

7 Love of Fate

Compassion

Woman, the Artist, and the Jew

The Mobile Army of Metaphors

Amor Fati

Redemption through Eternal Return

8 God's Ghost

Trans-ascendence and Transcendental Empiricism

Questioning Questioning

Post-theism and Posthumanity

Problem or Mystery

9 Innocent Guilt

Dionysus versus Oedipus

Absolute Responsibility

Absolute Joy

Territory

Austere Happiness

Save Sublimation Itself

10 Origins of Negation

Criticism and Hypocriticism

Sartre's Criticism of Hegel and Heidegger

Investiture

Reflexivity

11 Negation of Origins

The Interpretation of Nightmares

Outwith

Verneinung

Across the Threshold

12 Love of Wisdom and Wisdom of Love

Discounting the Cost

Philology

Affirmations

Addressings

Keeping the Secret of Hegel

Politics, Singularity, and Singularities

Part Three

13 Oversights

Helping Hands

Secrecies

Prego

The Disseminative Letter of a Smile

Deuil du Deuil, Deuil du Dieu

14 Oasis

Problem or Aporia

More Metaphors

Incarnation

Tweaking Plato's Tale

Desert and Garden

Betwixt and Between

Formal Indications.

15 Between the Quasi-transcendental and the Instituted

Birth, and Copulation, and Death

There Is Another World, but It's This One

Faith and Knowledge

Two Sources of "Religion"

16 Eucharistics

Specters of Feuerbach

The Sacred and the Holy

The Sacro-Sarcous and the Sacro-Sanct

Return of Bobby

Return of Gratitude

17 The World Is More Than It Is

Sublimities

The Chief Religious Faculty

Without Authority

The Future of Fecundity

Archi-sublimity

Faecundity

Epilogue

Again (iterum) of God, If You Wish

Ungodgiven Gifts

Epigraphs

Reversed Intentionality

Saturation

Eternity's Mark

Exceptions

Suppositions

Testaments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-462) and index.

ISBN:

9786612103513

1-282-10351-2

0-253-00279-6

OCLC:

456423460