Chapter 1 Self and other: An introduction

Chapter 2 On Hesitation before the Other

Chapter 3 Levinas: thinking least about death—contra Heidegger

Chapter 4 Life, death and (inter)subjectivity: realism and recognition in continental feminism

Chapter 5 Apophasis and the turn of philosophy to religion: From Neoplatonic negative theology to postmodern negation of theology

Chapter 6 From “ghost in the machine” to “spiritual automaton”: Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas

Chapter 7 Naming the Unnameable God: Levinas, Derrida, and Marion

Chapter 8 Vision and voice: Phenomenology and theology in the work of Jean-Luc Marion

Chapter 9 Suffering and transcendence

Chapter 10 Otherness and the problem of evil: How does that which is other become evil?

Chapter 11 Repentance and forgiveness: the undoing of time

Chapter 12 An end to evil? Philosophical and political reflections

Chapter 13 Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: the limitations of Habermas’s postmetaphysical proposal