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Contemporary continental philosophy approaches metaphysics with great reservation. A point of criticism concerns traditional philosophical speaking about God. Derrida, Marion, Bataille, Adorno, Taubes, and Bakhtin, each in their own way, continue the exploration begun by Nietzsche and Heidegger.
Flight of the Gods
Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology
- Paperback
460 pages
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1 January 2000
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 unzeitgemass' and shocking, the twentieth century by contrast, saw Heidegger's concept ofonto-theology’ and its implied problematization of the God of the metaphysicians quickly become a famous term. In Heidegger’s words, to a philoso…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780823220359 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0823220354 |
| Author: | Ilse Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press |
| Imprint: | Fordham University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 460 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 671g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
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Ilse Bulhof
Ilse Bulhof and Laurens ten Kate are Professors of Philosophy at Catholic Theological University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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