Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: On the non-reception of Lyotard in theology -- The father of the `postmodern condition' -- Theology in search of philosophy -- The non-reception of Lyotard in theology -- How to receive Lyotard into theology -- Outline of the present study -- 2. Philosophy in the postmodern condition: On the incredulity of modern master narratives and bearing witness to the differend -- Introduction: The postmodern condition -- Basic categories of Lyotard's language pragmatics: Phrases, phrase regimens and discourse genres -- Conflict and injustice within language: Differends and litigations -- The discourse genre of the narrative, and the modern master narrative -- The postmodern discrediting of the modern grand narratives -- The postmodern sign of history and the task of philosophy: Bearing witness to the differend -- 3. How to do justice to the event: The aesthetics of the sublime -- The beautiful and the sublime. Contents note continued: The avant-garde and postmodern aesthetics -- 4. Postmodern critical theory in action: The case of capitalism -- The capitalist rejection of the avant-garde -- Language pragmatic analysis of capitalism -- Postmodern critical theory -- By way of conclusion: Lyotard's intuition expressed in a plurality of perspectives -- 5. The master narrative of Christianity: A hegemonic discourse of the Idea of love -- Legitimation from the end -- The universalization of the instances -- Cognitive pretension -- A hegemonic discourse -- 6. Can God escape the clutches of the Christian master narrative? -- Openings in the Christian master narrative? -- Hidden traces of God? Lyotard and the turn to religion in contemporary continental philosophy -- Lyotard and theology: Towards a Christian `open narrative'? -- 7. The language pragmatic plausibility of open narratives: Continuing the conversation with Jean-Francois Lyotard -- On sea farers and the archipelago: Part 1. Contents note continued: On sea farers and the archipelago: Part 2 -- Three senses of the `differend': Injustice, conflictive plurality, radical heterogeneity -- The language pragmatic plausibility of an open narrative -- The language pragmatic and theological plausibility of a Christian open narrative -- 8. Lyotard and/or theology? On the precise relationship between philosophy and theology -- Either Lyotard or theology: Wendel's objections -- Receiving Lyotard in theology: On the relationship between philosophy and theology -- 9. The interruptive event of the sacramental -- Questioning sacramental thinking -- Sacramental differends? -- 10. The interruption of late-modern political theology -- The interruptive aim of Johann Baptist Metz's political theology -- The postmodern interruption of Metz's late-modern political theology -- Time: God interrupts history.
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