Heidegger and the Death of God - Between Plato and Nietzsche

This book presents a reading of Martin Heidegger's philosophy as an effort to strike a middle position between the philosophies of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche. Duane Armitage interprets the history of Western philosophy as comprising a struggle over the meaning of "being," and argues that this struggle is ultimately between materialism and idealism, and, in the end, between atheism and theism. This work therefore concerns the question of the meaning of the so called "death of God" in the context of contemporary Continental Philosophy.

List of contents

1: Introduction.- 2: Nietzsche and the Battle over Being.- 3: Heidegger's Gigantomachy.- 4: Kierkegaard, Nagel, Conclusions.

About the author

Duane Armitage is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Heidegger’s Pauline and Lutheran Roots (2016).

Summary

Presents a distinctive focus on Heideggers engagement with Nietzsche
Seeks to assess whether Heidegger's conclusions about Nietzsche are correct
Questions whether Heidegger's thinking overcomes the problems with Neitzsche's reductionism, so as to open up a new place for religious and theistic questions

Product details

• Authors: Duane Armitage
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319675787
• ISBN: 978-3-31-967578-7
• No. of pages: 118
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 12 mm x 219 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: XI, 118 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; C, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, comparative religion, Religion and Philosophy, Religions, Continental Philosophy, heidegger;nagel;reductionism;subjectivism;platonism