8 Heidegger and the Prospect of a Phenomenology of Prayer

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I Learning How to Pray
5. 1 Prayer as the Posture of the Decentered Self 11
6. 2 Who Prays? Levinas on Irremissible Responsibility 32
7. 3 Becoming What We Pray: Passion’s Gentler Resolutions 50
8. 4 Prayer as Kenosis 63
9. 5 The Prayers and Tears of Friedrich Nietzsche 73
10. 6 Attention and Responsibility The Work of Prayer 88
11. PART II Praying and the Limits of Phenomenology
12. 7 Irigaray’s Between East and West Breath, Pranayama, and the Phenomenology of Prayer 101
13. 8 Heidegger and the Prospect of a Phenomenology of Prayer 119
14. 9 Edith Stein Prayer and Interiority 134
15. 10 ‘‘Too Deep for Words’’ The Conspiracy of a Divine ‘‘Soliloquy’’ 142
16. 11 Plus de Secret The Paradox of Prayer 154
17. 12 Praise—Pure and Personal? Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenologies of Prayer 168
18. PART III Defining Prayer’s Intentionality
19. 13 The Saving or Sanitizing of Prayer The Problem of the Sans in Derrida’s Account of Prayer 183
20. 14 How (Not) to Find God in All Things Derrida, Levinas, and St. Ignatius of Loyola on Learning How to Pray for the Impossible 195
21. 15 Prayer and Incarnation: A Homiletical Reflection 209
22. 16 The Infinite Supplicant On a Limit and a Prayer 217
23. 17 Proslogion 232
24. Notes 245
25. Contributors 293
26. Index 295