CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

Introduction: For and Against the Universal—Doing Justice

I:   The Intimate Universal—Exoteric Reflections: Religion, Art, Philosophy, Politics

1.  Religion and the Intimate Universal: Neither Cosmopolis nor Ghetto

2.  Art and the Intimate Universal: Neither Imitation nor Self-Creation

3.  Philosophy and the Intimate Universal: Neither Theory nor Practice

4.  Politics and the Intimate Universal: Neither Servility nor Sovereignty

II:  The Intimate Universal—Systematic Thoughts: From the Idiotic to the Agapeic

5.  The Idiotics of the Intimate Universal

6.  The Aesthetics of the Intimate Universal

7.  The Erotics of the Intimate Universal

8.  The Agapeics of the Intimate Universal

 

GLOSSARY

NOTES

INDEX