God without being hors-texte / Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Thomas A. Carlson ; with a foreword by David Tracy ; and a new preface by Jean-Luc Marion.

Author/creator Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946-
Other author Carlson, Thomas A.
Other author Tracy, David.
Format Electronic
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoChicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Descriptionxxx, 313 pages ; 22 cm.
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Uniform titleDieu sans l'être. English
SeriesReligion and postmodernism
Religion and postmodernism. ^A249796
Contents Foreward -- Translator's Acknowledgments - Preface to the English edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Envoi -- God without being -- The idol and the icon -- First visible -- Invisible mirror -- Dazzling return -- Conceptual idol -- Icon of the invisible -- The face envisages -- Visible mirror of the invisible -- The icon in the concept -- Double idolatry -- The function of the idol -- The ambivalence of the conceptual idol -- Metaphysics and the idol -- The screen of being -- Note on the divine and related subjects -- The crossing of being -- The silence of the idol -- The ontological impediment -- Being or else (the good) -- The indifference to be -- The inessential name thus first -- The reverse of vanity -- Suspension -- Boredom -- Vanity of vanities -- As if -- Melancholia -- Of the eucharistic site of theology -- Let it be said -- The foreclosed event -- The eucharistic hermeneutic -- Whereof we speak -- The delay to interpretation -- Hors-texte -- The present and the gift -- One or the other idolatry -- Consciousness and the immediate -- Metaphysical or christic temporality -- The memorial -- Epektasis -- From day to day -- The gift of presence -- The urgency of contemplation -- The last rigor -- Predication -- Performance -- Conversions -- Martyrdom -- Thomas Aquinas and onto-theo-logy -- The construction of the question -- The characteristics of onto-theo-logy -- The object of metaphysica -- Esse commune and the analogy -- Cause and foundation -- The causa sui -- The horizon and the name of being -- Answer to the question: esse without being.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-280) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011038329
ISBN9780226505657 (paperback)
ISBN0226505650 (paperback)

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