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Acknowledgments Permission to use the following previously published materials is gratefully acknowledged. Chapter 1 appeared as ‘‘Intending Transcendence: Desiring God,’’ in Companion to Postmodern Theology, ed. Graham Ward (London: Blackwell, 2001), 349–65. Chapter 2 appeared as ‘‘Corporeality and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas,’’ in Incarnation, Proceedings of the Conference of the Instituto di Studi Filosofici Enrico Castelli, 1998, vol. 63, nos. 1–3, 113–26. Chapter 3 appeared as portions of Chapter 8 in Edith Wyschogrod , Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 231–57. Chapter 4 appeared as ‘‘Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel’s Questions ,’’ in Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought, ed. Merold Westphal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 245–59. Chapter 5 appeared as ‘‘Recontextualizing the Ontological Argument : A Lacanian Analysis,’’ in Lacan and Theological Discourse, ed. Edith Wyschogrod, David Crownfield, and Carl Raschke (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 97–118. Chapter 6 appeared as ‘‘Heidegger, Foucault, and the Askeses of Self-Transformation,’’ in Foucault and Heidegger: Critical Encounters, ed. Alan Rosenberg and Allen Milchman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 276–94. xi Chapter 7 appeared as ‘‘Blind Man Seeing: From Chiasm to Hyperreality ,’’ in Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Flesh, ed. Leonard Lawlor and Fred Evans (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), 165–76. Chapter 8 appeared as ‘‘The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Héloı̈se: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics,’’ in Asceticism, ed. Vincent Wimbush and Richard Valantasis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 16–32. Chapter 9 appeared as ‘‘From the Death of the Word to the Rise of the Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham,’’ in Philosophies of Religion, Art, and Creativity, Proceedings of the Twentieth-Century World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 4, ed. Kevin I. Stoehr (Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999), 219–29. Chapter 10 appeared as ‘‘Empathy and Sympathy as Tactile Encounter ,’’ in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 6 (1981): 23–41. Chapter 11 appeared as ‘‘Levinas’s Other and the Culture of the Copy,’’ in Encounters with Levinas, ed. Thomas Trezise, special issue of Yale French Studies, 2004, no. 104:126–43. Chapter 12 appeared as ‘‘From Neo-Platonism to Souls in Silico: Quests for Immortality,’’ in Rethinking Philosophy of Religion, ed. Philip Goodchild (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), 247–66. Chapter 13 appeared as ‘‘The Semantic Spaces of Terror: A Theological Response,’’ in Religion in a Secular World: Violence, Politics, Terror , ed. Clayton Crockett (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, forthcoming). Chapter 14 appeared as ‘‘The Warring Logics of Genocide,’’ in The Palgrave Guide to Philosophy, Genocide and Human Rights, ed. John K. Roth (Basingstroke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). Chapter 15 appeared as ‘‘Incursions of Evil: The Double Bind of Alterity,’’ in Modernity and the Problem of Evil, ed. Alan D. Schrift (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming). Chapter 16 appeared as ‘‘Memory, History, Revelation: Writing the Dead Other,’’ in Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism, ed. Michael A. Signer (Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2001), 19–34. Chapter 17 appeared as ‘‘Exemplary Individuals: Towards a Phenomenological Ethics,’’ in Philosophy and Theology, Marquette University Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1986): 9–31. Chapter 18 appeared as ‘‘Interview with Emmanuel Levinas: December 31, 1982,’’ in Philosophy and Theology, Marquette University Quarterly 4, no. 2 (1989): 105–18. xii Acknowledgments [3.133.144.197] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 08:24 GMT) Chapter 19 appeared as ‘‘Postmodernism and the Desire for God: An E-mail Exchange,’’ by Edith Wyschogrod and John D. Caputo, Cross Currents 48, no. 3 (1998): 293–310. Chapter 20 appeared as ‘‘Heterological History: A Conversation,’’ by Edith Wyschogrod and Carl Raschke, Journal of Contemporary Religious Thought 1, no. 2, http:www.jcrt,org.archives/01.2/wyschogrod _raschke.stml. Chapter 21 appeared as ‘‘Between Swooners and Cynics: The Art of Envisioning God,’’ in Theological Perspectives on God and Beauty, Rockwell Lectures Series (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International , 2003), 66–85. Chapter 22 appeared as ‘‘Facts, Fiction, Ficciones: Truth in the Study of Religion,’’ presidential address, American Academy of Religion , Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62, no. 1 (1994): 1–16. Chapter 23 appeared as ‘‘Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg’s Opera Moses and Aron,’’ in God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, ed. John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 245–59. Chapter 24 appeared as ‘‘Killing the Cat...

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