Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Prologue: The Challenge of Babel--From Alienation to Ethics After Auschwitz and Hiroshima | |
The Promise of Utopia and the Threat of Apocalypse | |
Technology and the Dialectics of Apocalypse and Utopia | |
The Coming of the Millennium | |
Language, Technique, and the Utopianism of the Body | |
The Technological City as Utopian Horizon of the Body-Self | |
The Apocalyptic Deformation of Utopianism: Procrustean and Protean Distortions | |
Doubt and Utopian Transcendence | |
The Dialectics of Apocalypse and Utopia | |
The Narrative Ambivalence of a Technological Civilization: Apocalypse or Utopia? | |
Technopolis: The Secular City as Utopian | |
Auschwitz: The Secular City as Apocalyptic | |
Technopolis: The Sacralization of the Secular City | |
From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: Technopolis and the Abyss of the Demonic | |
From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: The Apocalyptic Dark Night | |
Doubling and the Demonic Narrative of Auschwitz: Killing in Order to Heal | |
From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: The Demonic Inversion of the Narrative Traditions of the Holy-East and West | |
From Trinity to the Bhagavad Gita: Wounding in Order to Heal, Slaying to Make Alive | |
The Apocalyptic Dark Night and the MAD-ness of Planetary Suicide | |
After Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Utopian Ethics for an Apocalyptic Age | |
The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima to Technological Utopianism | |
Ethics: From Sacred Narratives to Utopian Critique | |
Theology of Culture as the Utopian Critique of Technical Civilization | |
The Dialectics of the Critique of Culture: From the Sacred and Profane to the Holy and Secular | |
The Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: From Sacred Morality to Alienation and Ethics | |
Utopian Ethics: From Human Dignity to Human Rights and Human Liberation | |
The Utopianism of Job: From the Ethics of Obedience to the Ethics of Audacity | |
Secular Holiness in Defense of Human Dignity: The Commanding Voice from Auschwitz and the UN Declaration of Human Rights | |
The Convergence of Utopian Narratives: From Abraham and Siddhartha to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr | |
Beyond Technopolis: The Utopian Promise of Babel | |
The Linguistic and Narrative Poverty of Secularism | |
Welcoming the Stranger as the Utopian Norm of Secular Reason | |
Technobureaucratic Rationality and the "Myth" of Human Rights | |
From Narrative Diversity to the Utopian Promise of Babel | |
A Utopian Vision: Narrative Ethics in a MAD World | |
Beyond the Naked Public Square | |
The Utopian Quest in an Age of Apocalyptic Darkness | |
Utopian Technopoesis and the Limits of Political Realism | |
From Apocalyptic MAD-ness to Utopian Madness: Public Policy Ethics as Critique of the Narrative Imagination | |
Epilogue: The Secular University, Religious Studies, and Theological Ethics After Auschwitz and Hiroshima | |
Appendix: The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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