Transcendence

Regina Schwartz is Professor of English and Religion at Northwestern University. Her publications include Remembering and Repeating: On Milton’s Theology and Poetics (rpt Chicago, 1992), The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (Chicago, 1997), “Freud’s God,” in Post-secular Philosophy, ed. Philip Blond (Blackwell, 1997) and When God Left the World: The Sacramental and the Secular in Early Modern England (forthcoming). She is editor of The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory (Blackwell, 1990) and coeditor of The Postmodern Bible (Yale, 1995).

"A fine collection of protests against reductive versions of modernity and complacent versions of post-modernity. This is intellectual and spiritual polemic of a high order; very necessary." -- Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury"Regina Schwartz has assembled a distinguished international body of thinkers, including some of the leading thinkers presently working in Europe and America. Together they make a searching inquiry into the place and possibility of transcendence today, raising along the way the question of the death of transcendence and whether transcendence has descended into immanence. An outstanding and impressive achievement." -- John D. Caputo, Villanova University

• Introduction: Transcendence: Beyond 1. A Place for Transcendence? 2. The Birth of the Modern Philosophy of Religion and the Death of Transcendence 3. Philosophy and Positivity 4. From the Other to the Individual 5. The Betrayal of Transcendence 6. Othello and the Horizon of Justice 7. Unlikely Shadows: Transcendence in Image and Immanence 8. Transcendence and Representation 9. Blanchot’s “Primal Scene” 10. Kafka’s Immanence, Kafka’s Transcendence 11. Walt Whitman’s Mystic Deliria 12. Sublimity: The Modern Transcendent 13. The Descent of Transcendence into Immanence, or, Deleuze as a Hegelian