| Acknowledgments | 5 |
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| Contents | 6 |
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| Contributors | 7 |
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| Introduction | 8 |
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| Overview of Contributions | 15 |
| Bibliography | 22 |
| Paul Ricoeur: Hermeneutics, Philosophy and Religion | 24 |
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| Bibliography | 43 |
| Thinking Otherwise: Derrida's Contribution to Philosophy of Religion | 45 |
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| Derrida and Religion: Two Generations | 47 |
| Ontotheology and Beyond: The Death of God, The Death of Man? | 50 |
| Giving Place, Saving Names: or, What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem? | 53 |
| Religion and (Post)modernity: The Return of the Religious | 57 |
| Taking Stock: Philosophy of Religion in a Derridean Key | 62 |
| Bibliography | 64 |
| Levinas's Project: An Interpretative Phenomenology of Sensibility and Intersubjectivity | 67 |
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| Introductory Remarks: Biography | 67 |
| A Different Sort of Ethics | 68 |
| The Early Philosophy | 69 |
| The War Years and Their Aftermath | 72 |
| Post-war Developments | 74 |
| Being, Intersubjectivity, and Totality and Infinity | 78 |
| Otherwise than Being and the Transposition of Messianic Time into Sensibility | 86 |
| Bibliography | 92 |
| The Challenge of Love: Kristeva and Irigaray | 95 |
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| Towards a Therapeutics of Women and the Feminine | 96 |
| Julia Kristeva and Religion | 98 |
| Summary Observations | 106 |
| Luce Irigaray | 107 |
| Bibliography | 117 |
| Thinking Differently: Foucault and the Philosophy of Religion | 119 |
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| Life and Thought of Michel Foucault (1926--1984) | 120 |
| Michel Foucaults Philosophical Location | 121 |
| The Intellectual Roots of the PhilosopherHistorian | 123 |
| The Experimental Attitude | 127 |
| Foucault, Philosophy and the Question of Religion | 129 |
| Discourse and Archaeological Knowledge | 131 |
| Power and Genealogy | 133 |
| Self, Philosophy and Spirituality | 137 |
| Conclusion: Philosophy and Religion After Foucault | 139 |
| Bibliography | 140 |
| Deleuze and Philosophy of Religion | 145 |
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| Indifference | 146 |
| Deleuze on David Hume | 147 |
| Atheistic Metaphysics | 149 |
| Bergsonism | 151 |
| Spinozism | 156 |
| Beatitude | 160 |
| The Plane of Immanence | 162 |
| Conclusion | 168 |
| Bibliography | 169 |
| Jean-Luc Marion: Phenomenology of Religion | 171 |
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| Descartes | 173 |
| Phenomenology | 177 |
| A God Without Being | 180 |
| The Saturated Phenomenon | 184 |
| Criticism of Marions Work | 187 |
| Bibliography | 190 |
| Critical Theory, Negative Theology, and Transcendence | 193 |
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| Walter Benjamin | 196 |
| Max Horkheimer | 200 |
| Theodor Adorno | 206 |
| Jürgen Habermas | 211 |
| Conclusions | 221 |
| Bibliography | 224 |
| Encountering Otherness | 227 |
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| Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) | 228 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) | 231 |
| Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) | 233 |
| Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) | 236 |
| Michael Foucault (1926–1984) | 239 |
| Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) | 242 |
| Jean-Luc Marion (b. 1946) | 243 |
| Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva | 245 |
| Bibliography | 250 |
| Notes on Contributors | 253 |
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| Index | 255 |