CHAPTER 6. Semantic Differences, or “Judaism”/“Christianity”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. What Are Words?
6. CHAPTER 1. Word as Act 17
7. CHAPTER 2. Medieval Irish Spells 35
8. CHAPTER 3. Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing 54
9. CHAPTER 4. Words and Word-Bodies 70
10. CHAPTER 5. Flesh Become Word 84
11. PART II. Religious Vocabularies
12. CHAPTER 6. Semantic Differences, or “Judaism”/“Christianity” 163
13. CHAPTER 7. The Name God in Blanchot 177
14. CHAPTER 8. Humanism’s Cry 181
15. CHAPTER 9. Intuition, Interpellation, Insight 199
16. CHAPTER 10. Allowed and Forbidden Words 211
17. PART III. Transmitting and Translating the Implicit
18. CHAPTER 11. God Lisped 225
19. CHAPTER 12. Rethinking the Implicit 249
20. CHAPTER 13. What Cannot Be Said 269
21. CHAPTER 14. Givenness and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology 284
22. PART IV. Situating Oneself via Language
23. CHAPTER 15. Prayer 313
24. CHAPTER 16. A Quarrel with God 335
25. CHAPTER 17. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics 348
26. CHAPTER 18. The Rise of Literal-Mindedness 364
27. CHAPTER 19. From Star Wars to Jediism 376
28. CHAPTER 20. The Words of the Martyr 390
29. PART V. Religious Language and Nationalism
30. CHAPTER 21. Militant Religiopolitical Rhetoric 405
31. CHAPTER 22. Thinking through Religious Nationalism 419
32. Notes 463
33. Contributors 591