Margins of Religion: Between Kierkegaard and Derrida

Contents

CONTENTS Prologue | 1 Part One 1 On the Borderline of Madness | 7 Absolute Wisdom 7 · The Higher Madness 9 · The Limits of Reason 11 · Madness 15 · Imprudence 20 · Passion 24 2 Stay! | 31 Inward Peace 31 · Secrecy 34 · Loves 44 · God, If You Wish 49 3 Philosophical Fragments | 52 Savings 52 · No Time to Waste 54 · Aufhebung 56 · Choice 63 · Religion 69 · Unsafety First 72 4 Standstill | 74 Absolutes 74 · Faith Works 76 · Midlife Pause 81 · Eppur Si Muove 84 · Salvation 87 5 Works of Love | 92 The Lily and the Dove 92 · A Daffodil 95 · Coram Mundo 100 Acknowledgments | xiii x | CONTENTS Part Two 6 Between Appearance and Reality | 107 Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 107 · Redemption through Art 108 · Herd Morality and Hard Morality 111 · Truth and Free Will 115 7 Love of Fate | 120 Compassion 120 · Woman, the Artist, and the Jew 123 · The Mobile Army of Metaphors 128 · Amor Fati 131 · Redemption through Eternal Return 133 8 God’s Ghost | 139 Trans-ascendence and Transcendental Empiricism 139 · Questioning Questioning 142 · Post-theism and Posthumanity 144 · Problem or Mystery 147 9 Innocent Guilt | 151 Dionysus versus Oedipus 151 · Absolute Responsibility 153 · Absolute Joy 156 · Territory 159 · Austere Happiness 164 · Save Sublimation Itself 165 10 Origins of Negation | 169 Criticism and Hypocriticism 169 · Sartre’s Criticism of Hegel and Heidegger 172 · Investiture 176 · Reflexivity 182 11 Negation of Origins | 186 The Interpretation of Nightmares 186 · Outwith 193 · Verneinung 195 · Across the Threshold 200 12 Love of Wisdom and Wisdom of Love | 210 Discounting the Cost 210 · Philology 215 · Affirmations 218 · Addressings 224 · Keeping the Secret of Hegel 229 · Politics, Singularity, and Singularities 231 CONTENTS | xi Part Three Notes | 417 Index | 463 13 Oversights | 237 Helping Hands 237 · Secrecies 239 · Prego 245 · The Disseminative Letter of a Smile 249 · Deuil du Deuil, Deuil du Dieu 255 14 Oasis | 260 Problem or Aporia 260 · More Metaphors 266 · Incarnation 270 · Tweaking Plato’s Tale 272 · Desert and Garden 279 · Betwixt and Between 284 · Formal Indications 286 15 Between the Quasi-transcendental and the Instituted | 293 Birth, and Copulation, and Death 293 · There Is Another World, but It’s This One 307 · Faith and Knowledge 311 · Two Sources of “Religion” 317 16 Eucharistics | 326 Specters of Feuerbach 326 · The Sacred and the Holy 329 · The Sacro-Sarcous and the Sacro-Sanct 336 · Return of Bobby 339 · Return of Gratitude 341 17 The World Is More Than It Is | 347 Sublimities 347 · The Chief Religious Faculty 353 · Without Authority 362 · The Future of Fecundity 367 · Archi-sublimity 370 · Faecundity 380 Epilogue | 383 Again (iterum) of God, If You Wish 383 · Ungodgiven Gifts 385 · Epigraphs 392 · Reversed Intentionality 393 · Saturation 394 · Eternity’s Mark 399 · Exceptions 404 · Suppositions 408 · Testaments 411 ...