Rethinking Faith

Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein

Antonio Cimino, Gert-Jan van der Heiden

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781501342127
• eBook ISBN: 9781501321238
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Metaphysics

Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious motives is deeply ambiguous since new forms of metaphysical and religious experience re-emerge in his philosophical works. Heidegger shares this ambiguous relation to the notions of faith and religion with authors such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein whose works are also marked by a critique of metaphysics and by a characteristic rethinking of the role of faith and religion. In fact, all three still remain, among other things, reference points for contemporary philosophical debates relating to the phenomenon of religion and faith. Rethinking Faith explores how the phenomena of religion and faith are present in the works of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, and how these phenomena are brought into play in their discussion of the classical metaphysical motives they criticize.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 The Phenomenon of Religion
• 1 Understanding Religious Faith: A Hermeneutical Approach Ben Vedder
• 2 Is Ontology the Last Form of Idolatry? A Dialogue between Heidegger and Marion Claudio Tarditi
• 3 A Religious End of Metaphysics? Heidegger, Meillassoux and the Question of Fideism Jussi Backman
• Part 2 Faith and Reason
• 4 “How we, too, are still pious”: The Status of Truth and the Irreducibility of Faith in the Work of Nietzsche Carlotta Santini
• 5 Dionysius, Apollo and Other Göttliche: Denial and Excess of Meaning in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein Tobias Keiling
• 6 “A way of living, or a way of assessing life”: Wittgenstein on Faith, Reason and Philosophy Chantal Bax
• 7 A Question of Faith: Heidegger’s Destructed Concept of Faith as the Origin of Questioning in Philosophy Vincent Blok
• Part 3 Pauline Resonances
• 8 Heidegger on Religious Faith: The Development of Heidegger’s Thinking about Faith between 1920 and 1928 Ezra Delahaye
• 9 The Experience of Contingency and the Attitude to Life: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Paul Gert-Jan van der Heiden
• 10 Paul as a Challenge for Contemporary Philosophers: Nietzsche, Heidegger and Agamben Antonio Cimino
• Index
• Copyright