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viii Contents Chapter Three From the Subject to the ‘Adonné’: Jean-Luc Marion 51 The Given Phenomenon, the Gift, and the Third Reduction 52 Reduction, Givenness, and Metaphysics 58 The Saturated Phenomenon 63 The Adonné 70 Conclusion and Critical Remarks 72 Chapter Four On Miracles and Metaphysics: From Marion to Levinas 81 Miracles and Saturation: John Caputo versus Merold Westphal 81 To See or Not to See? Marion’s Response to Jocelyn Benoist 84 Longing for Ockham: Of Other Gifts and Other Lovers 86 A Phenomenology of the Icon? 91 How to Avoid a Subject and an Object: Levinas’ ‘Relation without Relation’ 95 Overcoming Ontotheology with Levinas 100 Chapter Five Levinas: Substituting the Subject for Responsibility 105 Language and the ‘Relation without Relation’ 106 Levinas and the Critique of the Critique of Representation 109 Representation and Kenosis: Giving to the Other 115 Conclusion: Derrida and Levinas 117 Otherwise than Being: Condemned to Be Good 124 Totality and Infinity in Light of Otherwise than Being 124 The Subject’s Self Otherwise than Being 130 Chapter Six Intermediary Conclusions and the Question concerning Ontotheology 137 The Turn to ‘Jemeinigkeit’ in Levinas and Marion 137 The Limits of the Other and/in the Same: Levinas 139 The Limits of the Other and/in the Same: Marion 144 Theological Turns: Admiration against Abandonment 147 Reprise: Theology ‘after’ Ontotheology 148 ix Contents Chapter Seven “And There Shall Be No More Boredom”: Problems with Overcoming Metaphysics 159 Dasein, Metaphysics, and Dasein’s Metaphysics (Heidegger) 160 Another Metaphysics: The Metaphysics of the Other (Levinas) 167 A Significant Other? From the Other to the Individual (Marion) 169 Responding ad infinitum? 174 The Consequences of Overcoming Metaphysics for Faith and Theology 176 Chapter Eight Marion and Levinas on Metaphysics 179 Marion and/on Ontotheology 180 Nihilism, the Death of God, and the Persistence of Idolatry 180 Marion’s Understanding of Ontotheology 183 Who’s Afraid of Ontotheology? The Usual Suspects 185 Marion’s Understanding of Modern Ontotheology 189 A Metaphysical Schism? Marion and Descartes 192 Intermediary Conclusions 195 Levinas and/on Ontotheology 198 The Said as the Birthplace of Ontology 198 The Said as the Birthplace of Ontotheology 201 Halting the Regress, the God of the Gaps, and Ontotheology 204 Conclusion 207 Conclusion Toward a Phenomenology of the Invisible 211 Theological Turnings 211 The Privation of Immanence 215 Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Presencing 221 Metaphysics and Society: More Ado about Nothing 225 Turning to Theology? Of the Unredeemedness of the Human Being 229 Notes 239 Index 265 ...

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