Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. METAPHYSICS AND ITS IDOLS
The Marches of Metaphysics
Double Idolatry
II. SATURATION, GIFT, AND ICON
The Breakthrough and the Broadening
Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon
The Banality of Saturation
The Reason of the Gift
The Icon or the Endless Hermeneutic
III. READING DESCARTES
The Ambivalence of Cartesian Metaphysics
The Eternal Truths
The Question of the Divine Names
Does the Ego Alter the Other? Th e Solitude of the Cogito and the Absence of Alter Ego
The Originary Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes's Second Meditation
IV. REVELATION AND APOPHASIS
The Prototype and the Image
Thomas Aquinas and Onto- theo- logy
The Possible and Revelation
What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love
The Impossible for Man- God
V. ON LOVE AND SACRIFICE
The Intentionality of Love
Concerning the Lover, and His Advance
The Creation of the Self
Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice
Notes
Name Index
General Index