In Praise of Mortality Gebunden

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 pr ayer 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.