Rethinking Faith Heidegger between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein

by Cimino, Antonio; Heiden, Gert-Jan van der

• ISBN13: 9781501321221
• ISBN10: 1501321226
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-03
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Antonio Cimino is a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His books include Ontologia, storia, temporalità: Heidegger, Platone e l'essenza della filosofia (2005) and Phänomenologie und Vollzug: Heideggers performative Philosophie des faktischen Lebens (2013).

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Professor of Metaphysics at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His books include The Truth (and Untruth) of Language (2010), De stem van de doden (2012) and Ontology after Ontotheology (2014).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: The Phenomenon of Religion
1. Understanding Religious Faith: A Hermeneutical Approach
Ben Vedder (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
2. Is Ontology the Last Form of Idolatry? A Dialogue between Heidegger and Marion
Claudio Tarditi (University of Turin, Italy)
3. A Religious End of Metaphysics? Heidegger, Meillassoux, and the Question of Fideism
Jussi Backman (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

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 (Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris, France)
5. Dionysius, Apollo, and other Göttliche: Denial and Excess of Meaning in Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein
Tobias Keiling (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
6. “A way of living, or a way of assessing life”: Wittgenstein on Faith, Reason, and Philosophy
Chantal Bax (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
7. A Question of Faith: Heidegger's Destructed Concept of Faith as the Origin of Questioning in Philosophy
Vincent Blok (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

Part 3: Pauline Resonances
8. Heidegger on Religious Faith: The Development of Heidegger's Thinking about Faith between 1920 and 1928
Ezra Delahaye (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
9. The Experience of Contingency and the Attitude to Life: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Paul
Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
10. Paul as a Challenge for Contemporary Philosophers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Agamben
Antonio Cimino (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Index