Religion after metaphysics / edited by Mark A. Wrathall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wrathall, Mark A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion. At the same time there is renewed interest in the sacred and the divine in disciplines as varied as philosophy, psychology, literature, history, anthropology, and cultural studies. In this volume, leading philosophers in the United States and Europe address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion. The contributors include Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Jean-Luc Marion, Gianni Vattimo, Hubert Dreyfus, Robert Pippin, John Caputo, Adriaan Peperzak, Leora Batnitzky, and Mark Wrathall.

Contents:

Metaphysics and onto-theology / Mark A. Wrathall

Love and death in Nietzsche / Robert Pippin

After onto-theology: philosophy between science and religion / Gianni Vattimo

Anti-clericalism and atheism / Richard Rorty

Closed world structures / Charles Taylor

Between the earth and the sky: Heidegger on life after the death of God / Mark A. Wrathall

Christianity without onto-theology: Kierkegaard's account of the self's movement from despair to bliss / Hubert L. Dreyfus

Religion after onto-theology? / Adriaan Peperzak

The experience of God and the axiology of the impossible / John D. Caputo

Jewish philosophy after metaphysics / Leora Batnitzky

The 'end of metaphysics' as a possibility / Jean-Luc Marion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13758-6

1-280-43100-8

9786610431007

0-511-18016-0

0-511-20426-4

0-511-06241-9

0-511-30706-3

0-511-61539-6

0-511-07087-X

OCLC:

57254303