Self and Other: Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion

Self and other: An introduction.- On Hesitation before the Other.- Levinas: thinking least about death—contra Heidegger.- Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism.- Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology.- From “ghost in the machine” to “spiritual automaton”: Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas.- Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion.- Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion.- Suffering and transcendence.- Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?.- Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time.- An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections.- Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas’s postmetaphysical proposal.