Flight of the Gods : : Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology /

Flight of the Gods : : Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology / / Ilse Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate.

Contemporary continental philosophy approaches metaphysics with great reservation. A point of criticism concerns traditional philosophical speaking about God. Whereas Nietzsche, with his question “God is dead; who killed Him?” was, in his time, highly ‘unzeitgemäß’ and shocking, the twentieth centur...

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VerfasserIn:
Bulhof, Ilse,
ten Kate, Laurens,
MitwirkendeR:
Blans, Bert,
Bulhof, Ilse N,
Bulhof, Ilse N.,
Kal, Victor,
Kate, Laurens ten,
Marion, Jean-Luc,
Moyaert, Paul,
Schutter, Dirk de,
Simons, Anton,
Sneller, Rico,
Steunebrink, Gerrit,
Terpstra, Marin,
Vries, Hent de,
Wissink, Jozef,
Wit, Theo de,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2000
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (460 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Echoes of an Embarrassment: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology–An Introduction
  • 1. Cloud of Unknowing: An Orientation in Negative Theology from Dionysius the Areopagite, Eckhart, and John of the Cross to Modernity
  • 2. Is the Ontological Argument Ontological? The Argument According to Anselm and Its Metaphysical Interpretation According to Kant
  • 3. Two Forms of Negative Theology Explained Using Thomas Aquinas
  • 4. Zarathustra's Yes and Woe: Nietzsche, Celan, and Eckhart on the Death of God
  • 5. Being Unable to Speak, Seen As a Period: Difference and Distance in Jean-Luc Marion
  • 6. The Theology of the Sign and the Sign of Theology: The Apophatics of Deconstruction
  • 7. Being Open As a Form of Negative Theology: On Nominalism, Negative Theology, and Derrida’s Performative Interpretation of Khôra
  • 8. Crisis in Our Speaking about God: Derrida and Barth's Epistle to the Romans
  • 9. The Gift of Loss: A Study of the Fugitive God in Bataille' Atheology, with References to Jean-Luc Nancy
  • 10. Is Adorno's Philosophy a Negative Theology?
  • 11. No Spiritual Investment in the World As It Is: Jacob Taubes's Negative Political Theology
  • 12. The Author's Silence: Transcendence and Representation in Mikhail Bakhtin
  • 13. On Faith and the Experience of Transcendence: An Existential Reflection on Negative Theology
  • Epilogue
  • General Bibliography
  • Index of Names and Titles
  • General Index
  • About the Authors

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