In Praise of Mortality

Christianity and New Humanism. Edited by Kurt Appel. Translated by Alex Skinner, Natalie Eder, Rachel Thomas, and Carl Raschke. Contents: Kurt Appel: Introduction. - Kurt Appel: The Text as Subject: Methodological Reflections on the Present Volume. - Kurt Appel: Christianity and a New Humanism: Historical-Theoretical and Theological Reflections on the Bible, Hegel, and Musil. - Jakob Helmut Deibl: On the Name of God and the Opening of New Linguistic Horizons: Considerations Starting from the Bible, Hblderlin, and Rilke. - Isabella Guanzini: The Aesthetic Contingency of Life: An Account of the Finite in the Time of Images. - Kurt Appel: The Price of Prayer. 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. XIV,178 Seiten mit drei Abb., gebunden (Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society. Supplementa; Vol. 1/Brill | Schöningh 2022) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear

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