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Informationen zum Autor William Desmond is Professor of Philosophy at the Higher Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Klappentext God and the Between explores the space between religion and philosophy, as the religious person cannot escape philosophical perplexity and the philosopher of religion by nature occupies this middle space. Author William Desmond suggests that this junction is not just dictated by religion having to prove its credentials to rational philosophy but that it is also a matter of philosophy wondering whether religion is the ultimate partner in dialogue. Although the volume includes discussion of a wide range of significant thinkers, both traditional and contemporary, it is primarily an original effort to rethink the question of God in a constructive spirit. In doing so, God and the Between remains true to the porosity that exists between religion and philosophy, and draws its conclusions by considering ideas received from both sides. This book is an important new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding the intersection of philosophy and religion. It completes a trilogy of works by William Desmond, complementing its companion volumes, Being and the Between and Ethics and the Between. Zusammenfassung An original work which rethinks the question of God in a constructive spirit! drawing its conclusions by considering ideas received from both philosophy and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations. Preface. Introduction. Breaking Silence about God. God and the Ethos of Being. Passing in the Ethos: Between the Given and the Good. God, Ethos, and the Fourfold Sense of Being. God, Philosophical Systematics, Religious Poetics. Exceeding System, Hyperboles, Unclogging Ways. Structure of the Work. Part I: Godlessness: . 1. Godlessness and the Ethos of Being. Godlessness. Devalued Being: The Stripping of the Signs. Idolized Autonomy: Eclipse of Transcendence as Other Transcendences. The Antinomy of Autonomy and Transcendence. Dark Origins and Transcendence as Other. Will to Power and the Counterfeit Double of "Yes". Return to Zero: Coming to Nothing. 2. Beyond Godlessness. The Angel of Death, Being as Gift. God and Posthumous Mind. Out of Nothing: Porosity and the Urgency of Ultimacy. Redoubled Beginning: Elemental Yes. Idiotic Rebirth. Aesthetic Recharging. Erotic Outreaching. Agapeic Resurrection. Part II: Ways to God: . 3. God and the Univocal Way. Ways to God. The Way of Univocity. Pantheistic Univocity: Immediate Sacrality. Equivocal Transience and Univocalizing God. Beyond Doubleness to the Absorbing One: The Parmenidean Way. Between the One and the Double: The Platonic Way. The One beyond the Double: The Plotinian Way. Reversing the One and the Double: Or How the Dualistic Defense of Transcendence Effects its Eclipse. The Immanent Doubling: Or How the Shadow of Modern Monotheism is Atheism. Gods of Geometry. The One and the Double in Immanence: Kant's Transcendental One and its Humanistic Dissolution. 4. God and the Equivocal Way. The Way of Equivocity. Nature's Equivocity. God's Equivocity. Equivocity and Evil. Deus sive Ego? On the Equivocities of Religious Inwardness. Gethsemene Thoughts: Between Curse and Blessing. Deus sive Nihil? The Equivocal Way and Purgatorial Difference. 5. God and the Dialectical Way. God beyond Opposition. Kant's Virtual Dialectic: Finding Direction by Unknowing Indirection. A Parable: Fishing for God. Dialectic beyond Dualism: Determining Origin beyond Dete...
