Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Part One -- 1 On the Borderline of Madness -- Absolute Wisdom -- The Higher Madness -- The Limits of Reason -- Madness -- Imprudence -- Passion -- 2 Stay! -- Inward Peace -- Secrecy -- Loves -- God, If You Wish -- 3 Philosophical Fragments -- Savings -- No Time to Waste -- Aufhebung -- Choice -- Religion -- Unsafety First -- 4 Standstill -- Absolutes -- Faith Works -- Midlife Pause -- Eppur Si Muove -- Salvation -- 5 Works of Love -- The Lily and the Dove -- A Daffodil -- Coram Mundo -- Part Two -- 6 Between Appearance and Reality -- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Redemption through Art -- Herd Morality and Hard Morality -- Truth and Free Will -- 7 Love of Fate -- Compassion -- Woman, the Artist, and the Jew -- The Mobile Army of Metaphors -- Amor Fati -- Redemption through Eternal Return -- 8 God's Ghost -- Trans-ascendence and Transcendental Empiricism -- Questioning Questioning -- Post-theism and Posthumanity -- Problem or Mystery -- 9 Innocent Guilt -- Dionysus versus Oedipus -- Absolute Responsibility -- Absolute Joy -- Territory -- Austere Happiness -- Save Sublimation Itself -- 10 Origins of Negation -- Criticism and Hypocriticism -- Sartre's Criticism of Hegel and Heidegger -- Investiture -- Reflexivity -- 11 Negation of Origins -- The Interpretation of Nightmares -- Outwith -- Verneinung -- Across the Threshold -- 12 Love of Wisdom and Wisdom of Love -- Discounting the Cost -- Philology -- Affirmations -- Addressings -- Keeping the Secret of Hegel -- Politics, Singularity, and Singularities -- Part Three -- 13 Oversights -- Helping Hands -- Secrecies -- Prego -- The Disseminative Letter of a Smile -- Deuil du Deuil, Deuil du Dieu -- 14 Oasis -- Problem or Aporia -- More Metaphors -- Incarnation -- Tweaking Plato's Tale -- Desert and Garden -- Betwixt and Between -- Formal Indications.

15 Between the Quasi-transcendental and the Instituted -- Birth, and Copulation, and Death -- There Is Another World, but It's This One -- Faith and Knowledge -- Two Sources of "Religion" -- 16 Eucharistics -- Specters of Feuerbach -- The Sacred and the Holy -- The Sacro-Sarcous and the Sacro-Sanct -- Return of Bobby -- Return of Gratitude -- 17 The World Is More Than It Is -- Sublimities -- The Chief Religious Faculty -- Without Authority -- The Future of Fecundity -- Archi-sublimity -- Faecundity -- Epilogue -- Again (iterum) of God, If You Wish -- Ungodgiven Gifts -- Epigraphs -- Reversed Intentionality -- Saturation -- Eternity's Mark -- Exceptions -- Suppositions -- Testaments -- Notes -- Index.

Pursuing Jacques Derrida's reflections on the possibility of "religion without religion," John Llewelyn makes room for a sense of the religious that does not depend on the religions or traditional notions of God or gods. Beginning with Derrida's statement that it was Kierkegaard to whom he remained most faithful, Llewelyn reads Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Feuerbach, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Deleuze, Marion, as well as Kierkegaard and Derrida, in original and compelling ways. Llewelyn puts religiousness in vital touch with the struggles of the human condition, finding religious space in the margins between the secular and the religions, transcendence and immanence, faith and knowledge, affirmation and despair, lucidity and madness. This provocative and philosophically rich account shows why and where the religious matters.

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