Margins of Religion

Pursuing Jacques Derrida's reflections on the possibility of "religion without religion," John Llewelyn makes room for a sense of the religious that does not depend on religions or traditional notions of God or gods. Beginning with Derrida's statement that it was Kierkegaard to whom he remained most faithful, Llewelyn reads Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Deleuze, and Marion, as well as Kierkegaard and Derrida, in original and compelling ways. Llewelyn puts religiousness in vital touch with the struggles of the human condition, finding religious space in the margins between the secular and the religious, transcendence and immanence, faith and knowledge, affirmation and despair, lucidity and madness. This provocative and philosophically rich account shows why and where religion matters.

ISBN 0253220335   Pages 472 ISBN13 9780253220332 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Indiana University Press   Weight (grammes) 689 Imprint Indiana University Press   Published in Bloomington, IN Format Paperback   Series title Studies in Continental Thought Publication date 11 Mar 2009   Height (mm) 230 Library of Congress 2008023843   Width (mm) 159 DEWEY 210   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education

		Prologue		1
		Part One
1		On the Borderline of Madness		7
2		Stay!		31
3		Philosophical Fragments		52
4		Standstill		74
5		Works of Love		92
		Part Two
6		Between Appearance and Reality		107
7		Love of Pate		120
8		God's Ghost		139
9		Innocent Guilt		151
10		Origins of Negation		169
11		Negation of Origins		186
12		Love of Wisdom and Wisdom of Love		210
		Part Three
13		Oversights		237
14		Oasis		260
15		Between the Quasi-transcendental and the Instituted		293
16		Eucharistics		326
17		The World Is More Than It Is		347
		Epilogue		383
		Notes		417
		Index		463

"There is nothing comparable to this book within contemporary continental philosophy of religion." NDavid Kangas, University of California, Berkeley

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