{"product_id":"in-praise-of-mortality-kurt-appel-9783506791245","title":"In Praise of Mortality: Christianity and New Humanism","description":"This volume shows that the vulnerability and mortality of life are the starting points of its transcendence which exceeds all representability.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Phenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e, Musil's \u003ci\u003eMan Without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e, Hderlin's poetry and Lacan s psychoanalysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kurt Appel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3506791249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783506791245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill Schoningh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kurt Appel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995439825151,"sku":"9783506791245","price":101.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_348dfc53-0735-4f42-85ab-0bdddfc3d605.jpg?v=1683335828","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-praise-of-mortality-kurt-appel-9783506791245","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}