In Praise of Mortality: Christianity and New Humanism
This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representability. Only by renouncing fantasies of omnipotence of a theological, philosophical and scientific nature, human beings can advance to their destiny and introduce a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Paderborn
Brill | Schöningh
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society - Supplementa
1 |
| Further subjects: | B
Man without Qualities
B Hölderlin B Phenomenology of Spirit B Hegel B Lacan B Philosophie der Zeit B Eternal Life B ewiges Leben B Rilke B Musil B Eschatology B Philosophy of time |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783506791245 |
| Summary: | This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representability. Only by renouncing fantasies of omnipotence of a theological, philosophical and scientific nature, human beings can advance to their destiny and introduce a New Humanism enabling a bond between all that is alive and between human beings and their transcendent dimension. This includes an understanding of time that no longer follows chronological-mechanistic constraints, a non-instrumental understanding of language that finds its dimension of depth in prayer and an understanding of God in which God is inseparably related to the openness of human existence. In traversing the arising avenues of thought, the four-part volume, written by three authors but to be read as a unity, is oriented towards a philosophy of central biblical passages, Hegel‘s The Phenomenology of Spirit, Musil‘s Man Without Qualities, Hölderlin‘s poetry and Lacan´s psychoanalysis. |
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| Item Description: | Online resource; title from title screen (viewed March 28, 2022) |
| ISBN: | 3657791248 |
| Access: | Open Access |