In this Book
- Margins of Religion: Between Kierkegaard and Derrida
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Studies in Continental Thought
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.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. iii-v
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 1. On the Borderline of Madness
- pp. 7-30
- 3. Philosophical Fragments
- pp. 52-73
- 4. Standstill
- pp. 74-91
- 5. Works of Love
- pp. 92-103
- 6. Between Appearance and Reality
- pp. 107-119
- 7. Love of Fate
- pp. 120-138
- 8. God’s Ghost
- pp. 139-150
- 9. Innocent Guilt
- pp. 151-168
- 10. Origins of Negation
- pp. 169-185
- 11. Negation of Origins
- pp. 186-209
- 12. Love of Wisdom and Wisdom of Love
- pp. 210-234
- Part Three
- p. 235
- 13. Oversights
- pp. 237-259
- 16. Eucharistics
- pp. 326-346
- 17. The World Is More Than It Is
- pp. 347-382
- Index [Includes About the Author]
- pp. 463-471