Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Being and Its Surroundings: A Theological-Philosophical Breviary, Rather than a Treatise 3
4. What Need, What Metaphysics? 5
5. Philosophy and Contradiction 11
6. Wittgenstein and Historicity 18
7. Initial Paradox 28
8. The Future of Hermeneutics 36
9. The Consequences of Hermeneutics 46
10. Hermeneutics of Outrage 54
11. Hermeneutics of European Nihilism 61
12. Hermeneutics: Crossroads of the Critique of Globalization 66
13. Democracy and Hermeneutics 72
14. Emergency and Event: Technique, Politics, and the Work of Art 78
15. Democratic Fundamentalism and Dialect of Thought 82
16. Concerning Politics and Love 87
17. How to Become an Anti-Zionist 93
18. Transparent Totalitarianism 102
19. The Question of Technology Today 107
20. Passive or Reactive Nihilism 114
21. Mutual Recognition beyond Universalism 120
22. Reflections on the Dialectic of Development 125
23. The Boundaries of Art 132
24. European Religious Experience 141
25. Religion and Emancipation 149
26. Christianity without Truth 155
27. What (the Hell) Is Enlightenment? 164
28. True and False Christian Universalism 168
29. From Aesthetics to Ontology 176
30. To Interpret the World Is to Change It 184
31. Historicity and Différance 191
32. A Friendly Pragmatism 202
33. Heidegger the Theologian 213
34. Notes on Heidegger 223
35. Sources 235
36. Notes 237
37. Bibliography 241
38. Index 249