Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania

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525 Index Abraham, 139, 191–92, 204, 424n242, 435n152 absence in Buddhism, xxvi-xxvii in Derrida, 193, 195 in Heidegger, 98, 124, 128–29, 130–31, 238, 244 imagination and, 2 kabbalah and, 193 in Levinas, 98–99, 112 metaphor and, 145–46, 147 of the gift, 189–90, 237 of God, xx, xxvi, 53, 140, 193 of Godot, 118 of ground, 68, 336n265 of sensible form, 181 of the other, 10, 107, 148 of transcendence, 212, 222 presence and, xvii, xxii, xxiv–xxv, xxvi, 2, 45, 51–52, 74, 95, 98–99, 111, 112–13, 119, 128, 130–31, 136, 137, 167, 171, 174, 178, 183, 193, 194, 195, 198, 208, 221, 225, 234, 235, 238, 244, 258, 374n174 revelation and, 51–52 theology of, in Marion, xxi abstraction, 141–46 Abulafia, Abraham, 169, 275n26 adam, 4, 5 Adam, 22 adamah, 4 Adorno, Theodor, xviii, 147, 206–7, 264n29, 366n109, 404n10 affirmation, 76–77, 80 negation of, 231 Alchemy of Discourse, The (Kugler), 374n174 al-Fārābī, 5 Altarity (Taylor), 360n72 alterity, xiv, xvi, xviii, xxii, 10, 12, 15, 18, 60, 91, 93, 98, 107, 114, 120, 123, 132, 141, 142, 143, 144, 149, 150, 152, 162, 187, 193, 205, 207, 210, 211, 214, 215, 220, 221, 222, 227, 258, 259, 414n115, 435n152 diachrony and, 324n205 ethics of, 222 face and, 123, 402n520 ipseity and, 148 singularity and, 193, 419n188 space of, 218 temporality and, 324n205, 383n248, 384n267 transcendence and, 123, 138, 144, 324n205, 354n17 Altered Reading (Robbins), 397n456 Altizer, Thomas, xxii–xxvii, 177, 211, 214–15, 270n62, 271n77, 277n83, 277n88–89, 380n212 Altmann, Alexander, 22, 23, 30, 290n37, 312n85 Heidegger and, 290n37 altruism, 214, 218, 220, 221 “America and the Future of Theology” (Altizer), xxii anatheism, 230 aniconism, 150 anthropomorphism, 19, 20, 22, 25, 31–32, 87, 136, 262, 297n120, 298n125, 298–99n131, 352n389 526 Index apophasis. See also negative theology of apophasis, xxvii, 84, 151, 228–36 in Armstrong, 343n315 atheism and, 73, 340n295 Derrida on, 73, 171–73, 179, 182–83, 199, 202, 208, 339–40n295, 417n157 and eschatological overcoming of word by image, 69–89 feminism and, 229–30 of gender, 228–29 in Heidegger, 231 idolatry and, xviii, xxii, 228 in Levinas, 144, 151 logic of, xxii in Maimonides, 15, 16, 342n311 in Marion, 340–41n295 negation and, 231 nothingness and, xxvii, 75–76 in Plato, 16 revelation and, 41 in Rosenzweig, 52, 69–89, 317–18n138, 343–44n315 unsaying of, 171 in Wyschogrod, 202, 215 appresentation, 95–96 appropriation, in Heidegger, 124–25 Arcades Project, The (Benjamin), 14 arche-trace, 196 arche-writing, 200, 426n271 Arendt, Hannah, 51–52, 317n133, 338n275 Aristotle, 50, 226 imagination in, 1 view on animals, 368n120 arithmosophy, 168–69 Armengaud, Françoise, 104, 203, 391n366 Armstrong, Arthur H., 338n292, 343n315 Arnold, Matthew, 161 Art of Dialogue in Jewish Philosophy, The (Hughes), 349n362 atheism, xxi, xxii, xxiv, 28, 99, 234, 236, 258, 266n38 in Altizer, xxvi–xxvii, 271n88 apophasis and, 73, 339n292 Buddhism and, xxvi in Derrida, 73, 169–70, 194, 425n261 Eckhart and, 413n110 faith and, 266n38 freedom and, 139, 140 in Heidegger, 369n130 kabbalah and, 73, 154, 169, 194, 424n258 Kristeva and, 341n297 in Levinas, 10, 139–40, 394n396 metaphysical, 139, 152 monotheism and, xvi, xvii, xx, 74, 139, 140–41 mystical, 73, 341n297, 413n110 mysticism and, 72–73, 89, 170 in Nancy, xvi–xvii, 74, 139, 263n21 negative theology and, 340n295, 352n387 of the I, 140 paganism and, 369n130, 423n229 polysemy and, 154, 169–70 prayer and, 194 purifying, 73, 266n38 in Rosenzweig, 88, 306n29 Simone Weil and, 73, 265n33, 266n38 Spinoza and, 9 transcendence in, 139–40 atheistic self, 394n404 atheistic theology, 8, 42, 52, 88, 350n374 Atlan, Henri, xvii atonement, 21, 22 Attridge, Derek, 416n155 Auden, W. H., 154 Avicenna, 132 Badiou, Alain, xiii, 172, 414n115 Bannet, Eve Tavor, 171 Barak, Uriel, 36 Baring, Edward, 73 Batnitzky, Leora, 30–31, 320n173, 392n371 Beaufret, Jean, 172, 358n51 “Before the Law” (Kafka), 199 Being and Event (Badiou), 414n115 Being and Time (Heidegger), 48, 49, 95–96, 97, 103, 126, 127, 132, 240, 254, 332n254, 355n32, 358n51, 358n58, 387n309. See also Sein und Zeit Beistegui, Miguel de, 98 belonging, Judaism and, 165 Benjamin, Walter, 14, 115–16, 233, 379n209, 379n210 Index 527 Bennington, Geoffrey, 162 Bergo, Bettina, 112, 360n70, 428n9, 432n80 Bergson, Henri, 121, 383n248, 384n261 Bielik-Robson, Agata, 320n173 Biemann, Asher, 233 Bienenstock, Myriam, 327n225 Blake, William, xxiv, 3, 187, 420–21n207 Blanchot...