God, Death, and Time

• Translator's Foreword; Foreword Jacques Rolland; Part I. Death and Time: Initial Questions; What do we know of death; The death of the other [D'Autrui] and my own; An obligatory passage: Heidegger; The analytic of Dasein; Dasein and death; The death and totality of Dasein; Being-toward-death as the origin of time; Death, anxiety, and fear; Time considered on the basis of death; Inside Heidegger: Bergson; The radical question: Kant against Heidegger; A reading of Kant (continued); How to think nothingness?; Hegel's response: the science of logic; Reading Hegel's science of logic (continued); From the science of logic to the phenomenology; Reading Hegel's phenomenology (continued); The scandal of death: from Hegel to Fink; Another thinking of death: Starting from Bloch; A reading of Bloch (continued); A reading of Bloch: Toward a conclusion; Thinking about death on the basis of time; To conclude: Questioning again; Part II. God and Onto-Theo-Logy: Beginning with Heidegger; Beginning and meaning; Being and world; To think God on the basics of ethics; The same and the other; The subject-object correlation; The question of subjectivity; Kant and the transcendental ideal; Signification as saying; Ethical subjectivity; Transcendence, idolatry, and secularization; Don Quixiote: bewitchment and hunger; Subjectivity as an-archy; freedom and responsibility; The ethical relationship as a departure; The extra-ordinary subjectivity of responsibility; The sincerity of the saying; Glory of the infinite and witnessing; Witnessing and ethics; From consciousness to prophetism; In praise of insomnia; Outside of experience: the Cartesian idea of the infinite; A God 'transcendent to the point of absence'; Postscript Jacques Rolland; Notes.

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