In Praise of Mortality : Christianity and New Humanism / Kurt Appel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910568186603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paderborn, : Brill | Schöningh, 2022
• ISBN: 3-657-79124-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (192 pages)
• Collana: Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society Supplementa ; 1
• Disciplina: 198.9
• Soggetti: Phenomenology of Spirit; Hölderlin; Rilke; Hegel; Musil; Man without Qualities; Lacan; philosophy of time; eternal life; ewiges Leben; Philosophie der Zeit; Eschatologie; eschatology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.