Christina M. Gschwandtner teaches philosophy at the University of Scranton. She is translator of Jean-Luc Marion's On the Ego and On God and The Visible and the Revealed.

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Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part 1. The Constraints of Metaphysics
Introduction: "This Theological Veering Which Is Too Obvious"
1. Descartes and Metaphysics: "Metaphysics Opens upon Its Modernity"
2. Theology and Metaphysics: "With Respect to Being Does God Have to Behave like Hamlet?"
3. Phenomenology and Metaphysics: "Unfolding the Fold of the Given"
Part 2. A God of Excess
Introduction: "To Pass Over to God's Point of View"
4. Descartes and God: "A Solitary... Abandoned on a Field in Ruins"
5. Theology and God: "The Glory of the Divine Befalls Us Only Obliquely"
6. Phenomenology and God: "It Is Impossible for God to Be Impossible"
Part 3. A Self Open to the Other
Introduction: "The Sole Master and Servant of the Given"
7. Descartes and the Self: "The Ego and the God of the Philosopher Evaluate Each Other from a Distance"
8. Phenomenology and the Self: "The Self That Comes after the Subject"
9. Charity and Eros: "One Must Substitute Erotic Meditations for the Metaphysical Meditations"
Conclusion: "Between Evidence and Charity One Must Choose"
Notes
Bibliography
Index