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.
