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 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.