Steven Shakespeare is Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His publications include The Inclusive God (co authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard, SCM, 2006), Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction (SPCK, 2007) and Derrida and Theology (T and T Clark, 2009).

... the book serves its purpose as an introduction ([Shakespeare] should be applauded for the close reading of many primary texts that are usually ignored) and those interested in contemporary continental philosophy of religion will find this work a comprehensive and sensitive guide to Derrida.

• Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One Savage Genesis: Complicating the Origin Chapter Two In the Beginning was the Word: Repeat Chapter Three The Other, the Thief, the great Furtive One: Naming God Chapter Four How to Void Speaking: Derrida and Negative Theology Chapter Five Messianism and the Other to Come Chapter Six Touching: The Impossible Gift Chapter Seven Gift or Poison? Theological responses Conclusion A Useless, Indispensable Name Select Bibliography Index

Steven Shakespeare is Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His publications include The Inclusive God (co authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard, SCM, 2006), Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction (SPCK, 2007) and Derrida and Theology (T and T Clark, 2009).

... the book serves its purpose as an introduction ([Shakespeare] should be applauded for the close reading of many primary texts that are usually ignored) and those interested in contemporary continental philosophy of religion will find this work a comprehensive and sensitive guide to Derrida.

• Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One Savage Genesis: Complicating the Origin Chapter Two In the Beginning was the Word: Repeat Chapter Three The Other, the Thief, the great Furtive One: Naming God Chapter Four How to Void Speaking: Derrida and Negative Theology Chapter Five Messianism and the Other to Come Chapter Six Touching: The Impossible Gift Chapter Seven Gift or Poison? Theological responses Conclusion A Useless, Indispensable Name Select Bibliography Index

Steven Shakespeare is Lecturer in Philosophy at Liverpool Hope University and a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His publications include The Inclusive God (co authored with Hugh Rayment-Pickard, SCM, 2006), Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Introduction (SPCK, 2007) and Derrida and Theology (T and T Clark, 2009).

... the book serves its purpose as an introduction ([Shakespeare] should be applauded for the close reading of many primary texts that are usually ignored) and those interested in contemporary continental philosophy of religion will find this work a comprehensive and sensitive guide to Derrida.

• Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One Savage Genesis: Complicating the Origin Chapter Two In the Beginning was the Word: Repeat Chapter Three The Other, the Thief, the great Furtive One: Naming God Chapter Four How to Void Speaking: Derrida and Negative Theology Chapter Five Messianism and the Other to Come Chapter Six Touching: The Impossible Gift Chapter Seven Gift or Poison? Theological responses Conclusion A Useless, Indispensable Name Select Bibliography Index