Making the Heavens Speak

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design.Robert Hughes, the translator, is associate professor of English at Ohio State University.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceI Deus ex machina, Deus ex cathedra1 The gods in the theater2 Plato's contestation3 Of the true religion4 Representing God, being God: an Egyptian solution5 On the best of all possible heaven dwellers6 Poetries of power7 Dwelling in plausibilities8 The theopoetical difference9 Revelation whence?10 The death of the gods11 'Religion is unbelief': Karl Barth's intervention12 In the garden of infallibility: Denzinger’s worldII Under the high heavens13 Fictive belonging together14 Twilight of the gods and sociophany15 Glory: poems of praise16 Poetry of patience17 Poetry of exaggeration: religious virtuosos and their excesses18 Kerygma, propaganda, supply-side offense, or, When fiction is not to be trifled with19 On the prose and poetry of the search20 Religious freedomIn lieu of an afterwordNotesIndex

"Religion is poetry, poetry is religion, and both are concerned with the 'overarching' that is at once cosmic and political. The avatars of this triple connectivity, and what happens to it when the overarching becomes paradoxically contested, are brilliantly explored in this new book. Agree with Peter Sloterdijk or not, he will assist you to think further about what is truly fundamental to our human existence and its future."—John Milbank, University of Nottingham"Sloterdijk once again proves to both his followers and his critics that the reputation of his work as a rich set of traditions of intellectual inquiry [. . .] is justified."—Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy