Religion after metaphysics

✍ Scribed by Wrathall, Mark A

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? In this volume, leading philosophers address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion.

Abstract: How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? In this volume, leading philosophers address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion

✦ Table of Contents

Content: 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.

✦ Subjects

Religion -- Philosophy. Metaphysics. RELIGION -- Philosophy.