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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida xi Introduction: Miraculum ex Machina 1 Prologue: Miracle and Mass Destruction (Underworld I) 13 P A R T I : T H E I S L A N D A N D T H E S T A R R Y S K I E S A B O V E 1. Context Event Signature 21 2. Duplicity, Definition, Deracination 39 3. Three Theses on the Two Sources and Their One Common Element 65 P A R T I I : T H E R E L I G I O N ( S ) O F T H E W O R L D Interlude I: Waste, Weapons, and Religion (Underworld II) 103 4. La religion soufflée: The Genesis of ‘‘Faith and Knowledge’’ 107 5. The Telegenic Voice: The Religion of the Media 125 6. ‘‘Jewgreek is greekjew’’: Messianicity—Khōra—Democracy 152 vii P A R T I I I : U N D E R W O R L D S A N D A F T E R L I V E S Interlude II: Cyberspace and the Unconscious (Underworld III) 199 7. Mary and the Marionettes: Life, Sacrifice, and the Sexual Thing 202 8. Pomegranate Seeds and Scattered Ashes: From n ⴐ 1 to the One ⴐ n 227 9. The Passion of Literature: Genet in Laguna, Gide in Algiers 243 Epilogue: Miracle and Mass Delusion (Underworld IV) 276 O B S E R VAT I O N S Observation 1. Kant 287 Observation 2. Hegel 305 Observation 3. Bergson 311 Observation 4. Heidegger 319 Timeline of Selected Derrida Publications, Conferences, and Interviews: 1993–95 333 Notes 337 Index to Sections of ‘‘Faith and Knowledge’’ 393 Name and Subject Index 395 viii Contents ...

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