Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments

Front cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
About the Contributors......Page 12
SECTION I: Introduction......Page 18
CHAPTER 1. Other Testaments......Page 20
CHAPTER 2. Epoche and Faith: An Interview with Jacques Derrida......Page 44
SECTION II: Hostipitality......Page 68
CHAPTER 3. Autochthony and Welcome: Discourses of Exile in Levinas and Derrida......Page 70
CHAPTER 4. Hosting1*......Page 80
CHAPTER 5. Mary, Maternity, and Abrahamic Hospitality in Derrida's Reading of Massignon......Page 90
SECTION III: The Christian, THe Jew (The Hyphen)......Page 112
CHAPTER 6. Rosenzweig and Derrida at Yom Kippur1......Page 114
CHAPTER 7. Christianity and Anti-Judaism......Page 128
CHAPTER 8. Messianic Epistemology......Page 136
CHAPTER 9. Midrash and the "Magic Language": Reading without Logocentrism......Page 148
CHAPTER 10. Creatio Ex Libidine: Reading Ancient Logos Differantly1......Page 158
SECTION IV: Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Derrida......Page 174
CHAPTER 11. Other Eyes: Reading and Not Reading the Hebrew Scriptures/Old Testament with a Little Help from Derrida and Cixous......Page 176
CHAPTER 12. To Love the Tallith More Than God......Page 192
CHAPTER 13. Derridapocalypse......Page 206
CHAPTER 14. Otobiographies,1 Or How a Torn and Disembodied Ear Hears a Promise of Death......Page 226
CHAPTER 15. The Word Becomes Text: A Dialogue between Kevin Hart and George Aichele1......Page 258
SECTION V: Sacrifices and Secrets......Page 278
CHAPTER 16. Sacrifice and Secularization: Derrida, de Vries, and the Future of Mourning......Page 280
CHAPTER 17. Secrets and Sacrifices of Scission......Page 300
SECTION VI: Revelation(s)......Page 312
CHAPTER 18. Deconstruction, God, and the Possible......Page 314
CHAPTER 19. The Revelation According to Jacques Derrida......Page 326
CHAPTER 20. Aporia or Excess? Two Strategies for Thinking r/Revelation......Page 342
CHAPTER 21. The Revelation of Justice......Page 354
SECTION VII: La/Le Toucher (Touching Her/Him)......Page 366
CHAPTER 22. Touching Transcendence: Sexual Difference and Sacrality in Derrida's Le Toucher......Page 368
CHAPTER 23. Untouchable......Page 380
CHAPTER 24. Touching (in) the Desert: Who Goes There?1......Page 392
CHAPTER 25. El Tocado (Le Toucher): Sexual Irregulatrities in the Translation of God (The Word) in Jesus......Page 410
INDEX......Page 424
Back cover......Page 442