Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Dialectic and Otherness: The Historical Problem
The Problem of Otherness: Four Fundamental Possibilities
Desire and Origins

PART 1: INTENTIONAL INFINITUDE
1. Desire, Lack, and the Absorbing God
Finite Desire and Lack
Particular Possessions and the Infinitude of Desire
The Difficulty of Discourse and Desire
Infinite Lack and the Absorbing God
Afterword

2. Desire and Original Selfness
The Issue in Historical Context
The Being of Self and the Difficulty of Discursive Access
The Original Self as Fact
The Original Self as Ideal
The Original Self as Concrete Ideality
The Original Self and the Empirical Ego
The Original Self and the Transcendental Ego: Being and the "I think"
Afterword

3. Desire's Infinitude and Wholeness
Univocal and Equivocal Desire: Wholeness Shortcircuited
Intentional Infinitude and Wholeness
Between Incompleteness and Absolute Closure: Art and the Dialectical Tension of Wholeness
The Open Circle of Desire
Afterword

PART 2: ACTUAL FINITUDE
4. Desire, Transcendence, and Static Eternity
Transcendence, Time, and the Problem of Dualism
Desire and Equivocal Becoming
Static Eternity and Its Defects
Becoming as Process of Positive Othering
The Self as Free Becoming
The Positive Pluralization of Identity and Difference
Afterword

5. Desire, Knowing, and Otherness
Immediacy, Self-mediation, and Intermediation
Hegel, Identity, and Self-Mediation
The Dialectical and the Metaxological Relations
Afterword

6. Desire, Concreteness, and Being
Desire and the Identification of Otherness
Univocal Particularity and Equivocal Predication
Dialectical Comprehension and Form
The Metaxological Affirmation of Being
The Fourfold Sense of Being and Traditional Philosophical Views
Afterword

7. Desire, Otherness, and Infinitude
Desire, Infinitude, and the "Between"
Three Forms of Infinitude
The Sublime and Aesthetic Infinitude
Agapeic Otherness
Afterword

PART 3: ACTUAL INFINITUDE
8. Desire and the Absolute Original
The Absolute Original and the Metaxological View
The Absolute Original and the Givenness of Being
The Absolute Original, the Regulative Ideal, and the Ens Realissimum
The Absolute Original as Whole and Infinite
The Absolute Original as Beginning and End
The Absolute Original, Heights, and Depths
The Absolute Original and the Absorbing God
The Absolute Original, Man, and the World
Afterword

Bibliography
Index