Making the Heavens Speak

Religion as Poetry

AvPeter Sloterdijk

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage became the setting where gods made their poetic interventions, resolving human impasses and contributing to the emotional synchronization of the public life of the city.Sloterdijk argues that, as with the culture of the Ancient Greeks, all religions inscribe a kind of “theopoetry” at the heart of their cultural life and thought, even as they strenuously obscure these poetic origins through the cultivation and enforcement of orthodox norms. Sloterdijk also shows how, in conditions of religious pluralism, religions poetically reshape themselves to accommodate the demands of the religious marketplace.This highly original study of the poetic devices that inform accounts of the otherworldly offers a new interpretation of religious practice and its theological elaboration through history, as well as a fresh perspective on our contemporary age in which collective life, interwoven with imaginative fabrications, is fraying under critical stress.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-16
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781509547500
Översättare:Hughes, Robert, Hughes, Robert (Ohio State University)

Utforska kategorier

Religion och tro inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design.Robert Hughes, the translator, is associate professor of English at Ohio State University.

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"Religion is poetry, poetry is religion, and both are concerned with the 'overarching' that is at once cosmic and political. The avatars of this triple connectivity, and what happens to it when the overarching becomes paradoxically contested, are brilliantly explored in this new book. Agree with Peter Sloterdijk or not, he will assist you to think further about what is truly fundamental to our human existence and its future."—John Milbank, University of Nottingham"Sloterdijk once again proves to both his followers and his critics that the reputation of his work as a rich set of traditions of intellectual inquiry [. . .] is justified."—Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsPrefaceI Deus ex machina, Deus ex cathedra1 The gods in the theater2 Plato's contestation3 Of the true religion4 Representing God, being God: an Egyptian solution5 On the best of all possible heaven dwellers6 Poetries of power7 Dwelling in plausibilities8 The theopoetical difference9 Revelation whence?10 The death of the gods11 'Religion is unbelief': Karl Barth's intervention12 In the garden of infallibility: Denzinger’s worldII Under the high heavens13 Fictive belonging together14 Twilight of the gods and sociophany15 Glory: poems of praise16 Poetry of patience17 Poetry of exaggeration: religious virtuosos and their excesses18 Kerygma, propaganda, supply-side offense, or, When fiction is not to be trifled with19 On the prose and poetry of the search20 Religious freedomIn lieu of an afterwordNotesIndex