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Tables of Contents for The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction: A Passion for the Impossible
xvii
A Map for the Perplexed
xxvii
I. The Apophatic
1
68
God Is Not difference
1
19
Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Derrida and Levinas on the Impossible
20
6
Affirmation at the Limits: How Not to Speak
26
15
Save the Name, Wholly Other: Toward a General Apophatics
41
28
Edifying Divertissement No. 1. Bedeviling Faith
57
12
II. The Apocalyptic
69
48
Viens!
69
8
Messianic Time: Derrida and Blanchot
77
11
An Apocalypse sans Apocalypse to Jacques of El Biar
88
13
The Secret
101
16
Edifying Divertissement No. 2. From Elea to Elohim: The God of the Same, the God of the Other
113
4
III. The Messianic
117
43
Of Marx and the Messiah
118
16
Messianic Passion and the Religion of Saint Jacques
134
17
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Almost)
151
9
IV. The Gift
160
70
The Time of Giving and Forgiving
161
27
Edifying Divertissement No. 3. Traditions and the World-Play
181
7
Abraham's Gift
188
24
Abraham and the Pharisees
212
18
Edifying Divertissement No. 4. Deconstruction and the Kingdom of God
222
8
V. Circumcision
230
51
Hegel and the Jews
230
20
Edifying Divertissement No. 5. Deferring Incarnation---and Jesus the Jew
243
7
Circumcision
250
13
Is Deconstruction Really a Jewish Science?
263
18
VI. Confession
281
50
The Son of These Tears: The Confession of Jacques de la rue Saint-Augustin
281
27
Edifying Divertissement No. 6. A Prayer
308
1
These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears: The Faith of Jacques Derrida
308
23
Conclusion: A Passion for God
331
9
Notes
340
31
Select Bibliography on Derrida and Religion
371
4
Index
375