Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives . Bulhof, Kate<|

Flight of the GodsPhilosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology\nAuthor(s): Ilse Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823220359, 978-0823220359\nSynopsis\nContemporary continental philosophy approaches metaphysics with great reservation. A point of criticism concerns traditional philosophical speaking about God. Whereas Nietzsche, with his question \""God is dead; who killed Him?\"" was, in his time, highly 'unzeitgem' and shocking, the twentieth century by contrast, saw Heidegger's concept of 'onto-theology' and its implied problematization of the God of the metaphysicians quickly become a famous term. In Heidegger's words, to a philosophical concept or 'being' we can neither pray, nor kneel. Heidegger did not, however, return to the God of Christian faith. He tried to initiate a new way of speaking about Goda way that reveals the limits of philosophical discourse. Derrida, Ma.