Flight of the Gods : Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology / Ilse Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate.
Bulhof, Ilse, author.; Blans, Bert, contributor.; Bulhof, Ilse N, contributor.; Bulhof, Ilse N., contributor.; Kal, Victor, contributor.; Kate, Laurens ten, contributor.; Marion, Jean-Luc, contributor.; Moyaert, Paul, contributor.; Schutter, Dirk de, contributor.; Simons, Anton, contributor.; Sneller, Rico, contributor.; Steunebrink, Gerrit, contributor.; Terpstra, Marin, contributor.; Vries, Hent de, contributor.; Wissink, Jozef, contributor.; Wit, Theo de, contributor.; ten Kate, Laurens, author.
2022
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Title Flight of the Gods : Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology / Ilse Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate.
Author Bulhof, Ilse, author.
ISBN 9780823291564
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823291564
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2000
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (460 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823291564 doi
Summary 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 century by contrast, saw Heidegger's concept of 'onto-theology' and its implied problematization of the God of the metaphysicians quickly become a famous term. In Heidegger's words, to a philosophical concept or 'being' we can neither pray, nor kneel. Heidegger did not, however, return to the God of Christian faith. He tried to initiate a new way of speaking about God-a way that reveals the limits of philosophical discourse. Derrida, Marion, Bataille, Adorno, Taubes and Bakhtin, each in their own way, continue this exploration begun by Nietzsche and Heidegger. This book takes a fresh look at these developments. The 'death of God' as the editors say in an introductory study, announces not so much the death of the 'old God'-the God of philosophers, theologians and believers-but rather the death of the god who put himself on His throne: autonomous human reason. In listening to the reactions to this dethronement of autonomous reason, the editors believe they hear the echoes of an experience of an embarrassment rooted partly in an old medieval tradition: negative theology. With the death of this 'new god', might a sensitivity reappear for transcendence? Here the editors want to offer a platform where contemporary philosophers of culture can again pose the question of speaking about God.
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Added Author Blans, Bert, contributor.
Bulhof, Ilse N, contributor.
Bulhof, Ilse N., contributor.
Kal, Victor, contributor.
Kate, Laurens ten, contributor.
Marion, Jean-Luc, contributor.
Moyaert, Paul, contributor.
Schutter, Dirk de, contributor.
Simons, Anton, contributor.
Sneller, Rico, contributor.
Steunebrink, Gerrit, contributor.
Terpstra, Marin, contributor.
Vries, Hent de, contributor.
Wissink, Jozef, contributor.
Wit, Theo de, contributor.
ten Kate, Laurens, author.
Series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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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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