Theology and difference: the wound of reason

Abstract

Preface I. Introduction: Violence and Reason Pitfalls of Enlightenment The Dissolving of Difference The Memory of Suffering Making Sense of Derrida Tradition in Question Contextualization The Idealist Diamond The Kantian Opening II. Qualitative Difference: BarthOs Epistle to the Romans Qualitative Difference Memory of God The Christ Event An Analogy of Difference? Theology and Difference: The Argument in Brief III. Truth and Contextualization: Freud, Husserl, Derrida Freud and the Logic of Suspicion Kant and the Issue of Objectivity Husserl and the Western Discovery of Objectivity Derida and the Deconstruction of Objectivity Ricoeur and Theological Hermeneutics Hermeneutics and the Idealist Diamond The Deconstructionist Alternative The Insistnece of the Truth Question IV. The Kantian Opening Kant and the Sublation of Theodicy Ontotheology and the Great Chain of Being Plenitude and the Otherness of Time Kant and the New Cosmology Beyond Ontotheology Opening the First Critique The Coram Deo V. The Otherness of the Ethical Opening the Second Critique The Wound of Reason Imperative as Contextualization The Return of Theodicy Rational Existentialism Cutting the Idealist Diamond VI. The Ethics of Otherness The Argument Reviewed The A/theology of Mark C. Taylor Barth and the Problem of Ethics Dialectic and Repentance Thinking through the Wound Notes Selected Bibliography Index