Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations for Works by Jean-Luc Nancy
Preamble: In the Midst of the World; or, Why Deconstruct Christianity?
Re-opening the Question of Religion: Dis-enclosure of Religion and Modernity in the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy
PART I Christianity and Secularization; or, How Are We to Think a Deconstruction of Christianity?
Intermezzo
The Self-Deconstruction of Christianity
Deconstruction or Destruction? Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy's Theory of Christianity
Sense, Existence, and Justice; or, How Are We to Live in a Secular World?
Between All and Nothing The Affective Dimension of Political Bonds
PART II Monotheism, God
Intermezzo
Winke: Divine Topoi in Nancy, Ho¨lderlin, and Heidegger
God Passing By Presence and Absence in Monotheism and Atheism
Thinking Alterity-In One or Two? Nancy's Christianity Compared with Lyotard's Judaism
The Excess of Reason and the Return of Religion: Transcendence of Christian Monotheism in Nancy's Dis-enclosure
PART III Creation, Myth, Sense, Poiēsis
Intermezzo
''My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?'' Demythologized Prayer; or, the Poetic Invocation of God
Literary Creation, Creation ex Nihilo
The God Between
The Immemorial The Deconstruction of Christianity, Starting from ''Visitation: Of Christian Painting''
PART IV Body, Image, Incarnation, Art
Intermezzo
Incarnation and Infinity
Ontology of Creation. The Onto-aisthetics of Jean-Luc Nancy
Distinct Art
The Dis-enclosure of Contemporary Art: An Underpinning Work
On Dis-enclosure and Its Gesture, Adoration: A Concluding Dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy
Notes
Contributors
Index