Religion after Metaphysics

Mark A. Wrathall is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Brigham Young University, Utah. He has published articles in a number of journals and has contributed chapters to books in the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy series. He is co-editor of Appropriating Heidegger (Cambridge, 2000), Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity (2000), and Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science (2000).

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Metaphysics and onto-theology Mark A. Wrathall; 2. Love and death in Nietzsche Robert Pippin; 3. After onto-theology: philosophy between science and religion Gianni Vattimo; 4. Anti-clericism and atheism Richard Rorty; 5. Closed world structures Charles Taylor; 6. Between the earth and the sky: Heidegger on life after the death of God Mark A. Wrathall; 7. Christianity without onto-theology: Kierkegaard's account of the self's movement from despair to bliss Hubert L. Dreyfus; 8. Religion after onto-theology? Adriaan Peperzak; 9. The experience of God and the axiology of the impossible John Caputo; 10. Jewish philosophy after metaphysics Leora Batnitzky; 11. The end of metaphysics as a possibility Jean-Luc Marion; Index.

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