Religion after Metaphysics

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Edited by Mark Wrathall

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published January 2004, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 0521531969

How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion. At the same time there is renewed interest in the sacred and the divine in disciplines as varied as philosophy, psychology, literature, history, anthropology, and cultural studies. In this volume, leading philosophers in the United States and Europe address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion.

Contributors: Mark A. Wrathall, Robert Pippin, Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Adriaan Peperzak, John Caputo, Leora Batnitzky, Jean-Luc Marion

 Contents

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