Description: Appropriating Modernism, Merold Westphal I. Placing Postmodernism 1. On the Uses and Advantages of An Epistemology For Life, W. Jay Wood 2.Postmodernism as a Kind of Modernism: Nietzsche's Critique of Knowledge, Lee Hardy 3.Is the Postmodern Post-Secular? The Parody of Religious Quests in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don De Lillo's White Noise, Brian D. Ingraffia 4.Against Appropriation: Postmodern Programs, Claimants, Contests, Conversations, Gary Percesepe II. Theological Issues 5.The Hermeneutics of Difference: Barth and Derrida on Words and the Word, Garrett Green 6.The Bitterness of Cain: (Post)modernity's Disdain for Determinacy, Walter Lowe 7.Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Gift, Jean-Luc Marion 8.Against Idolatry: Heidegger and Natural Theology, George Connell 9.Yearning for Home: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in a Postmodern Age, Steven Bouma-Prediger 10.Toward a Postmodern Theology of the Cross: Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida, John D. Caputo III. Ethical and Social Issues 11.Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Questions, Edith Wyschogrod 12.Love's Reason: From Heideggerian Care to Christian Charity, Norman Wirzba 13.Between Exclusivity and Plurality: Toward a Postmodern Christian Philosophy of Other Religions, Andrew J. Dell'Olio Contributors Index

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