After Writing On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy

by Pickstock, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780631206729
• ISBN10: 0631206728
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity.

Author Biography

Catherine Pickstock is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Preface	xii
PART I: THE POLITY OF DEATH	1	(166)
Socrates Goes Outside the City: Writing and Exteriority	3	(44)
Introduction	3	(1)
The Plot of the Phaedrus	4	(2)
The Trade of the Sophists	6	(1)
Writing as Capital	7	(4)
The Contagion of the Good	11	(9)
Platonic versus Derridean Supplementation	20	(3)
Plato's return to Myth	23	(4)
Eros and Exteriority	27	(5)
The Socratic Gaze	32	(1)
The Mediations of Egypt	33	(4)
Intimations of Doxology	37	(10)
Spatialization: The Middle of Modernity	47	(54)
The New Sophistry	47	(2)
Peter Ramus	49	(8)
The Cartesian City	57	(4)
Reality Without Depth	61	(9)
The Written Subject	70	(4)
The City of Virtuosi	74	(7)
The Theatrical City	81	(7)
The Language of Modernity	88	(13)
Nouns: a hardness as of cut stone	89	(6)
Syntax: the contour against the void	95	(3)
The warp of language	98	(3)
Signs of Death	101	(66)
The Necrophilia of Modernity	103	(3)
The Abyssal Gesture	106	(2)
Indications of Nothing	108	(2)
Postmodern Parsimony	110	(4)
A Dismal Sign	114	(7)
Transition	119	(2)
`Can My Eating Slake Your Hunger?' On the Evacuation Of Liturgy	121	(1)
Duns Scotus and the Priority of the Possible	121	(14)
Univocity of Being	122	(1)
The formal distinction	123	(2)
The actual-possible	125	(4)
The thinkable	129	(2)
The eucharist and other possible miracles	131	(3)
The haunted middle	134	(1)
The Decline of Liturgical Order	135	(23)
Excursus on Scotist politics	135	(5)
Kinship	140	(2)
The economic realm	142	(4)
The civic realm	146	(3)
The juridical realm	149	(3)
The political	152	(2)
Eternal bonds	154	(3)
The rupture of power and love	157	(1)
The Theological Body	158	(9)
PART II: THE SACRED POLIS	167	(100)
I Will Go Unto The Altar of God: The Impossible Liturgy	169	(51)
Introduction	169	(1)
Spatialization and the Liturgy	170	(6)
The Impossibility of Liturgy	176	(16)
A summary of the mediaeval Roman Rite	178	(2)
The journey's name	180	(3)
The problematic altar	183	(3)
The time of purification	186	(4)
The other offering	190	(2)
The Apostrophic Voice	192	(6)
The Permutability of Identity	198	(15)
Divine identifications	203	(5)
Borrowed names	208	(5)
Liturgical Satire	213	(3)
Liturgy as both Text and Voice	216	(4)
Seraphic Voices: The Space of Doxology	220	(33)
Introduction	220	(1)
`Vesper in Ambiguo Est': The Time of Liturgy	220	(3)
Christic Asyndeton	223	(5)
Liturgical Space	228	(5)
`Dona Nobis Pacem': The Liturgical Chronotope	233	(5)
The Gift of Citizenship	238	(15)
The character of gift	240	(1)
Giving the impossible gift	241	(5)
The impossible return	246	(2)
The gift of being	248	(5)
The Resurrection Of The Sign	253	(14)
Transubstantiation: Beyond Presence and Absence	253	(3)
Eucharistic Scepticism	256	(3)
Transubstantiation in Aquinas: A Defence	259	(2)
Transubstantiation as the Condition of Possibility for all Meaning	261	(3)
The Eucharistic Logos	264	(3)
Conclusion	267	(7)
Analytical Index	274