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Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He has served as president of the Hegel Society of America and the Soren Kierkegaard Society and as co-director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. His works include History and Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology (3rd edition; Indiana University Press) and God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion (Indiana University Press). He is co-editor (with Martin Matu_t+¡k) of Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (Indiana University Press).
Appropriating Postmodernism | p. 1 |
Placing Postmodernism | |
On the Uses and Advantages of an Epistemology for Life | p. 13 |
Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche's Critique of Knowledge | p. 28 |
Is the Postmodern Post-Secular? The Parody of Religious Quests in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don De Lillo's White Noise | p. 44 |
Against Appropriation: Postmodern Programs, Claimants, Contests, Conversations | p. 69 |
Theological Issues | |
The Hermeneutics of Difference: Barth and Derrida on Words and the Word | p. 91 |
The Bitterness of Cain: (Post)modernity's Flight from Determinacy | p. 109 |
Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Gift | p. 122 |
Against Idolatry: Heidegger and Natural Theology | p. 144 |
Yearning for Home: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in a Postmodern Age | p. 169 |
Toward a Postmodern Theology of the Cross: Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida | p. 202 |
Ethical and Social Issues | |
Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Questions | p. 229 |
Love's Reason: From Heideggerian Care to Christian Charity | p. 246 |
Between Exclusivity and Plurality: Toward a Postmodern Christian Philosophy of Other Religions | p. 268 |
Contributors | p. 287 |
Index | p. 289 |
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