The Modern Experience of the Religious.

• Superior document: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy Series ; v.1
• Author: Bravo, Nassim.
• TeilnehmendeR: Stewart, Jon.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New Research in the History of Western Philosophy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (381 pages)

"The articles in The Modern Experience of the Religious, edited by Nassim Bravo and Jon Stewart, explore the many ways in which religion was impacted by the emergence of modernity, particularly after the Enlightenment, which underscored the centrality of human reason and thus called into question traditional forms of religiosity. Modernity raised several questions that are studied by the authors of this volume: What should be the role of religion in a secular or pluralistic society? How does the human being relate to God? Can instituted religion be compatible with modern values such as civil liberties, pluralism or environmentalism?"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theology -- 1 The Enlightenment and Its Aftermath -- 1 The Acceptance of the Enlightenment's Valorization of Critique -- 2 The Moderate Appropriation of the Enlightenment -- 3 The Conservative Reaction to the Enlightenment -- 4 Hegel's Rational Alternative to Enlightenment Reason -- 5 The Turn to Subjectivity as an Alternative to Enlightenment Reason -- 6 Kierkegaard as an Existential Alternative to Enlightenment Reason -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 Between Enlightenment and Revivalism: Grundtvig's "Matchless Discovery" -- 1 The Religious and Theological Context in Golden Age Denmark -- 2 The Sources of Revelation according to Clausen's Theological Rationalism -- 3 Grundtvig's Revolutions -- 4 Grundtvig's "Matchless Discovery" -- 5 Conclusion. The Aftermath of the Controversy -- Bibliography -- 3 Saved Out of the World: A Brief History of Evangelical Individualism -- 1 The Reformation and Its Contribution to Evangelical Individualism -- 2 The Age of the Awakenings -- 3 Postmodern Individualism and Evangelicalism -- 4 Dichotomies of Evangelical Individualism -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Philosophy of Religion -- 4 Common Sense in Mendelssohn, Feuerbach, Gadamer and Habermas: The Role of Skepticis -- 1 Rehabilitation of Pre-understanding and Prejudice as a Result of the Skeptical Approach -- 2 Plato's Dialectics as an Inspiration for Mendelssohn, Feuerbach, Gadamer and Habermas -- 3 The Ontological Character of Meaning -- 4 Ceremonial Law and the Truth of an Artwork -- 5 Theory and Practice -- 6 Common Sense -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 5 History and Facticity in Kant's Philosophy of Religion -- 1 Forms of Secularism in the Scholarly Debate about Religion in Kant -- 2 Kant's Theory of Radical Evil and Grace.

3 Christ and Kant's Archetype of the Perfect Moral Man -- 4 Some Reflections on the Summum Bonum in the Religion -- 5 Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- 6 Eriugena's Angels: A Case Study on a Role of Imagination in Spirituality -- 1 How to Philosophize on Angels? -- 2 Thinking the Unthinkable -- 3 Eriugena and Angels -- 4 Is Pure Spirituality Possible without Imagination? -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 7 Approaches to the Knowledge of God in Classical Islamic Thought -- 1 God and Creation: Kalāmic Arguments -- 2 God and Creation: Philosophical Arguments -- 3 The Experience of God beyond Deductive Reasoning and Logical Argumentation -- 4 Concluding Remarks: Deductive Reasoning versus the Experience of the Divine -- Bibliography -- Part 3 Philosophical Anthropology -- 8 The Logical Foundations of Divinity in Ernst Cassirer: Descartes, Leibniz and Cohen -- 1 Religion as an Epistemological Form -- 2 Descartes and Cassirer: Geometrical Meditations on the Divine Substance -- 3 Leibniz and Cassirer: The Logodicy as First Foundation -- 4 Cohen and Cassirer: The Logical-Ethical Idea of God -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 9 The (Non)place of Human Challenges Concerning the Question -- 1 Man's Search for a Place in the World -- 2 Excentric Positionality and the Play Element -- 3 The Utopian Standpoint and the Desire for Home -- 4 From Contingency to Absolute and Back -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 10 Philosophy and Religion: Contested Consanguinity -- Acknowledgements -- Part 4 Politics and Social Sciences -- 11 Nietzsche in Dialogue with the Hegelians in the Attack -- 1 Nietzsche and Marx: The Revolutionary Goal -- 1.1 Nietzsche's Address to his Readers in the Anti-Christ -- 1.2 Nietzsche's Understanding of the Key Terms of Morality -- 2 Nietzsche and Marx: Alienation -- 2.1 Slave Morality as a Form of Alienation.

2.2 Nietzsche's Philosophical Anthropology -- 3 Nietzsche and Feuerbach: The Conception of God and the Future -- 3.1 The Development of the Conception of God -- 3.2 The Distortion of Christ's Message -- 3.3 The Doctrine of Immortality and Christianity's Persecution of Science -- 3.4 Belief as a Form of Self-Alienation -- 4 Nietzsche's Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 12 Nietzsche on Religion: Das Religiöse Wesen -- 1 On the Anthropology of Religion -- 2 Hunting the Souls of the Homines Religiosi -- 3 Dissolving the Paradox of the Saint -- 4 The Religious Instinct -- 5 The Misanthropic Agenda of Modern Philosophy -- 6 The "New" Philosophers -- 7 The Calamity of European Christianity -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 13 Religious Philosophy in the Shadow of Communism: The Story of Kierkegaard Translations -- 1 The Development of Translation Traditions in the Free World -- 2 Translation Traditions behind the Iron Curtain -- 3 The Overall Impact of Communism on Translation Traditions -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 14 Humanity as a New Image of the Divine Absoluteness -- 1 The Late Works of Levinas and the Divine Absoluteness -- 2 The Alliance with God: Protection of Nature -- 3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.