Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. PART ONE: RECENT DEBATES
5. Jacques Derrida Terror, Religion7 and the New Politics 1
6. Jean-Luc Marion The Hermeneutics of Revelation 15
7. Paul Ricreur On Narrative Imagination 33
8. Georges Dumezil Myth, Ideology, Sovereignty 53
9. PART TWO: FROM DIALOGUES: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL HERITAGE, 1984
10. Emmanuel Levinas Ethics of the Infinite 63
11. Herbert Marcuse The Philosophy of Art and Politics 85
12. Paul Ricreur The Poetics of Language and Myth 99
13. Stanislas Breton Being, God, and the Poetics of Relation 126
14. Jacques Derrida Deconstruction and the Other 139
15. PART THREE: FROM STATES OF MIND, 1995
16. Julia Kristeva Strangers to Ourselves: The Hope of the Singular 157
17. Hans-Georg Gadamer Text Matters 167
18. Jean-Francois Lyotard What Is Just? 192
19. George Steiner Culture: The Price You Pay 205
20. Paul Ricreur. Universality and the Power of Difference 216
21. Urnberto Eco. Chaosmos: The Return to the Middle Ages 223
22. PART FOUR: COLLOQUIES WITH RICHARD KEARNEY
23. Villanova Colloquy. Against Omnipotence: God beyond Power 229
24. Athens Colloquy. Between Selves and Others 246
25. Halifax Colloquy Between Being and God 253
26. Stony Brook Colloquy Confronting Imagination 261
27. Boston Colloquy Theorizing the Gift 284
28. Dublin Colloquy Thinking Is Dangerous 305
29. Appendix: Philosophy as Dialogue 327
30. Notes 333
31. Index 337