In praise of mortality: Christianity and new humanism

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

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Kurt Appel (Ed.) ; translated by Alex Skinner, Natalie Eder, Rachel Thomas, and Carl Raschke

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Preliminary Material; Copyright page; Introduction to “In Praise of Mortality” /; The Text as Subject /; Christianity and a New Humanism /; On the Name of God and the Opening of New Linguistic Horizons /; The Aesthetic Contingency of Life /; The Price of Prayer /; Contributors; Detailed Contents.

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2023-04-12

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