Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. I. METAPHYSICS AND ITS IDOLS
6. The Marches of Metaphysics 39
7. Double Idolatry 57
8. II. SATURATION, GIFT, AND ICON
9. The Breakthrough and the Broadening 75
10. Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon 108
11. The Banality of Saturation 135
12. The Reason of the Gift 156
13. The Icon or the Endless Hermeneutic 181
14. III. READING DESCARTES
15. The Ambivalence of Cartesian Metaphysics 197
16. The Eternal Truths 213
17. The Question of the Divine Names 225
18. Does the Ego Alter the Other? Th e Solitude of the Cogito and the Absence of Alter Ego 234
19. The Originary Otherness of the Ego: A Rereading of Descartes’s Second Meditation 250
20. IV. REVELATION AND APOPHASIS
21. The Prototype and the Image 271
22. Thomas Aquinas and Onto- theo- logy 288
23. The Possible and Revelation 312
24. What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love 325
25. The Impossible for Man— God 339
26. V. ON LOVE AND SACRIFICE
27. The Intentionality of Love 359
28. Concerning the Lover, and His Advance 381
29. The Creation of the Self 411
30. Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice 436
31. Notes 451
32. Name Index 539
33. General Index 541