God and the Between Book

Preface     xi
List of abbreviations     xiii
Introduction     1
Breaking Silence about God     1
God and the Ethos of Being     2
Passing in the Ethos: Between the Given and the Good     6
God, Ethos, and the Fourfold Sense of Being     7
God, Philosophical Systematics, Religious Poetics     10
Exceeding System, Hyperboles, Unclogging Ways     11
Structure of the Work     13
Godlessness     15
Godlessness and the Ethos of Being     17
Godlessness     17
Devalued Being: The Stripping of the Signs     19
Idolized Autonomy: Eclipse of Transcendence as Other     21
Transcendences     22
The Antinomy of Autonomy and Transcendence     23
Dark Origins and Transcendence as Other     24
Will to Power and the Counterfeit Double of "Yes"     26
Return to Zero: Coming to Nothing     28
Beyond Godlessness     31
The Angel of Death, Being as Gift     31
God and Posthumous Mind     32
Out of Nothing: Porosity and the Urgency of Ultimacy     33
Redoubled Beginning: Elemental Yes     35
Idiotic Rebirth     36
Aesthetic Recharging     37
Erotic Outreaching     40
Agapeic Resurrection     43
Ways to God     47
God and the Univocal Way     49
Ways to God     49
The Way of Univocity     49
Pantheistic Univocity: Immediate Sacrality     50
Equivocal Transience and Univocalizing God     52
Beyond Doubleness to the Absorbing One: The Parmenidean Way     53
Between the One and the Double: The Platonic Way     55
The One beyond the Double: The Plotinian Way     57
Reversing the One and the Double: Or How the Dualistic Defense of Transcendence Effects its Eclipse     59
The Immanent Double(ing): Or How the Shadow of Modern Monotheism is Atheism     61
Gods of Geometry     64
The One and the Double in Immanence: Kant's Transcendental One and its Humanistic Dissolution     68
God and the Equivocal Way     73
The Way of Equivocity     73
Nature's Equivocity     74
God's Equivocity     75
Equivocity and Evil     78
Deus Sive Ego? On the Equivocities of Religious Inwardness     82
Gethsemane Thoughts: Between Curse and Blessing     85
Deus Sive Nihil? The Equivocal Way and Purgatorial Difference     88
God and the Dialectical Way     91
God Beyond Opposition     91
Kant's Virtual Dialectic: Finding Direction by Unknowing Indirection     93
A Parable: Fishing for God     100
Dialectic beyond Dualism: Determining Origin beyond Determination     101
Dialectic and the Self-Determining God: On Some Hegelian Ways     103
Dialectic, Coming to Be, Becoming     107
God Beyond Dialectic: On Avoiding a Counterfeit Double of God     109
God and the Metaxological Way     116
Four Ways: God and the Metaxological     116
The Indirections of Transcending in the Between     122
God and the Between: First Hyperbole - The Idiocy of Being     128
God and the Between: Second Hyperbole - The Aesthetics of Happening     134
God and the Between: Third Hyperbole - The Erotics of Selving     141
God and the Between: Fourth Hyperbole - The Agapeics of Communication     150
God Beyond the Between     159
The Hyperbole of the Agapeic Origin     159
Reversing the Hyperboles and the Reserves of God     164
Bringing the Hyperboles Back to the Between     167
Gods     171
God(s) Many and One: On Polytheism and Monotheism     173
Gods     173
Religious Imagination and Porosity to Archaic Manifestation     174
Sacred Namings and the Hyperboles of Being     176
Naming the Agapeic God     179
From Polytheism to Monotheism     180
Metaxological Monotheism     184
The Praise of Paganism     187
God(s) Personal and Transpersonal: On the Masks of the Divine     191
Personal God(s) and Plurivocal Manifestation     191
Monotheistic and Polytheistic Personalizations     193
Beyond Person, Beyond Mask     196
The Gods of Philosophers: Masks of the Impersonal or Transpersonal?     200
God(s) Gnostic: On Passing through the Counterfeit Doubles of the Divine     205
Gnosticism and Religious Plurivocity     205
Divinities Doubled Below and Above     208
Gnostic Equivocity and the Fourfold Naming     211
The Equivocal World as a Counterfeit Double?     215
Passing Beyond the Counterfeit Doubles     216
Agonistics: Divine and Human     218
Doubling Back, Backing Out - Reversing Release     219
Gnosticism and Metaxology: On Saving Knowing in the Equivocal Matrix     223
God(s) of the Whole: On Pantheism and Panentheism     225
Holistic Immanence and the God of the Whole     225
Pantheism Contra the Worthless World     226
Affirming the World and the Immanent God     229
God and the Whole     231
Holistic Emanation and Pluralistic Creation     233
God Beyond the Whole?     236
The Holistic God and Evil     238
God Beyond the Whole: On the Theistic God of Creation     241
What has Philosophy to do with Creation?     241
Creation Beyond Univocal Intelligibility     244
Creation Beyond Holism     246
Creation, Coming to Be and Becoming     248
Creation and Nothing     250
Creation and Agapeic Origination: Dualism and the "Not"     251
Creation, Hyper-Transcendence and Divine Intimacy     252
Continuing Creation, Agapeic Self-Reserving     254
Creation and Arbitrary (Will to) Power     255
Creation, Hyperbolic Evil and Trust     256
God(s) Mystic: On the Idiocy of God     259
The Idiotics of the Mystic God     259
The Aesthetics of the Mystic God     263
The Erotics of the Mystic God     268
The Agapeics of the Mystic God     272
God      279
God: Ten Metaphysical Cantos     281
God     281
First Metaphysical Canto: God Being Over-Being     282
Second Metaphysical Canto: God Being (Over) One     288
Third Metaphysical Canto: God Being Eternal - Surplus to Coming to Be     292
Fourth Metaphysical Canto: God Being Incorruptible - Agapeic Constancy     297
Fifth Metaphysical Canto: God Being Impassable - Asymmetrical Agapeics     300
Sixth Metaphysical Canto: God Being Absolute - Absolved Agapeics     304
Seventh Metaphysical Canto: God Being Infinite     308
Eighth Metaphysical Canto: God Being (Over)All-Power     314
Ninth Metaphysical Canto: God Being True - Agapeic (Over)All-Minding     321
Tenth Metaphysical Canto: God Being (Too) Good     327
Index     341