Description
Book SynopsisPushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast 'reason' and 'religion' in opposition, this title seizes the opportunity to question the authority of 'the modern' and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Apology for the Impossible: Religion and Postmodernism John
D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon
1. In the Name: How to Avoid Speaking of 'Negative Theology' Jean-Luc
Marion
Response by Jacques Derrida
2. On the Gift: A Discussion between Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion
Moderated by Richard Kearney
3. Loose Canons: Augustine and Derrida on Their Selves Robert Dodaro
Discussion
4. Desire of God Richard Kearney
Discussion
5. Overcoming Onto-theology Merold Westphal
Discussion
6. Fragments: The Spiritual Situation of Our Times David Tracy
Discussion
7. Apostles of the Impossible: On God and the Gift in Derrida and Marion
John D. Caputo
8. A Deconstruction of Religion: On Derrida and Rahner Michael J. Scanlon
9. Betting on Vegas Mark C. Taylor
Discussion
10. Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg's
Opera Moses and Aron Edith Wyschogrod
11. Revisiting the Body: Virginity Secularized Frangoise Meltzer
12. Our Own Faces in Deep Wells: A Future for Historical Jesus Research
John Dominic Crossan
Contributors
Index
