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Index
Cover-Page
Half-Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedicatoin
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Re-examining the normative traditions of theological discourse
Dialectics versus the antinomies of (antinomian?) thought
Outline of this study
Part 1 Between Philosophy and Theology
1 The Legacy of an Antinomian Messianism within a Jewish Historical Context
Recurring antinomian gestures: On the return to Saint Paul in contemporary thought
Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes on the historical significance of Sabbatianism
Jacob Taubes and the division between “Judaisms” and “Christianities”
The re-entrance of immanence
2 Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben on the Processes of Messianicity and Canonicity
Derrida on economic and aneconomic processes
Deconstruction and canonicity
The messianic confronts the canon in the work of Derrida
Derrida on the mystical foundations of law and canonical forms
Deconstruction as “thwarted messianism”: Agamben’s reading of Derrida
Agamben on the theopolitical dimensions of the “messianic”
Distinguishing canons: Between more or less violence
Derrida’s response to Agamben
Beyond the archive, toward the canon: The irresolvable tension between Derrida and Agamben
Archives/Fevers
Agamben on testimony and the archive
Lingering questions
Toward a prophetic “theology of creation”
Revisiting immanence as a messianic disruption: The return to Judaic origins
Part 2 The Radical Hermeneutics of Theology
3 The Violence of the Canon: A Contemporary Context for the Canonical Form
Jan Assmann on the historical emergence of the canon
A “weak notion of truth”
Messianic forces within canonical representations in Walter Benjamin
Benjamin and the sacred text
Fragmentary glimpses of the canonical form
Toward forming the canonical in Benjamin
Initial conclusions
4 The Necessity of Hermeneutics
The “exceptionalism” of Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and the bid for an ethical canon
The “hermeneutics of canonicity”: Phariseeism and its relation to the Prophetic
The “exceptions” and aporias of authority
A happy canon?
The guises of violence, or on the difficulties of constructing an ontotheological bridge between metaphor and politics
History or time
How metaphor reigns politically
Potentiality versus actuality
Tentative conclusions to a perpetual debate
A Levinasian core: On an ethical affinity between Judith Butler and Paul Ricoeur
The dialectics of oneself as another
Judith Butler on the dialectics of representation
Radical hermeneutics
Conclusion
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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