Being and God : a systematic approach in confrontation with Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Marion /
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| Author / Creator: | Puntel, Lorenz B. (Lorenz Bruno) |
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| Uniform title: | Sein und Gott. English |
| Imprint: | Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xxii, 427 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8519183 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1: Inadequate approaches to the question of God
- 1.1. Initial clarifications
- 1.2 Wholly unsystematic direct approaches
- 1.3. Semi-systematic indirect approaches
- 1.4. A wholly anti-systematic, anti-theoretical, and direct approach: Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1.5. A characteristic example of a failed critique: Thomas Nagel's objections to God as "last point"
- Ch. 2. Heidegger's thinking of Being: the flawed development of a significant approach
- 2.1. Heidegger's failed and distorting interpretation and critique of the Christian metaphysics of Being
- 2.2. Heidegger's four approaches to "retrieving" the "question of being"
- 2.3. What is unthought in Heidegger's thinking of Being I: Being-as-Ereignis
- 2.4. What is unthought in Heidegger's "thinking of Being" II: Being and being(s)- Ereignis and Ereignete(s)
- 2.5. The "overcoming [Überwinding] of metaphysics" as "transformational recovering [Verwindung]" of metaphysics and "the end of the history of Being"
- 2.6. The status of Heideggerian thinking I: thinking of Being as thinking within Ereignis, thinking that reaches its destination with Ereignis (Denken, das in das Ereignis einkehrt)
- 2.7. The status of Heideggerian thinking II: absolute claim, provisionality, the poverty of language, the language of thinking, the finitude of thinking
- 2.8. Heidegger's thinking and the topic "God"
- 2.9. Heidegger's "thinking": a fundamentally deficient and confused form of thinking
- Ch. 3:The structural-systematic approach to a theory of Being and God
- 3.1. The systematic context: the theoretical framework of the structural-systematic philosophy
- 3.2. The unrestricted universe of discourse as the universal dimension of primordial Being
- 3.3. Explication of the dimension of Being I: theory of Being as such
- 3.4. Explication of the dimension of Being II: theory of Being as a whole
- 3.5. Explication of the relation between absolutely necessary Being and the contingent dimension of Being as key to a conception of absolutely necessary Being as minded (as personal)
- 3.6. Absolutely necessary minded (personal) Being as creator of the world (as absolute creating)
- 3.7. The clarified relation between Being and God and the task of developing an integral theory about God
- Ch. 4: Critical examination of two counterpositions: Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion
- 4.1. Levinas's misguided conception of transcendence "beyond B/being"
- 4.2. Jean-Luc Marion's failed conception of "radical and non-metaphysical transcendence" and of "God without Being".
