The weight of finitude : on the philosophical question of God / by Ludwig Heyde ; translated by Alexander Harmsen and William Desmond ; foreword by William Desmond.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-171) and index.

"Ludwig Heyde's examination of the weight of finitude and its relation to God is translated here for the first time in English. Though philosophers may question if there still is room for God in philosophy after Nietzsche's pronouncement that "God is dead," Heyde suggests that a full acceptance of the finitude of existence can lead to the affirmation of God. He criticizes conceptions that have unconsciously dominated our thinking since the Enlightenment. In relation to the philosophical tradition - Thomas Aquinas, Anselm, Descartes, Kant, and primarily Hegel, among others - certain "experiences" are developed which thought can undergo when it goes to its limits and asks after the ground of all that is. At the same time, Heyde investigates how well the affirmation of God stands up against various intellectual and existential challenges such as Kant's critique, the experience of evil and suffering, and the thought of Heidegger and Nietzsche."--Jacket.

Foreword / William Desmond -- The Absence of the Essential -- An Essenceless World -- The Reversal of Positions -- The Dominion of Wealth -- Comedy and Cynicism -- The Protest of Faith -- Faith as Flight -- The Essencelessness of Faith -- The "Retrieval" of the Essential. The Struggle of the -- Enlightenment -- God's Disappearance -- The Unsatisfied Enlightenment -- A One-Dimensional World and a Distant God -- Ways of Thinking Toward God -- Faith and Thought -- Faith -- The Experience of Thought -- Enigmatic Contingency -- Why Something at all ...? -- An Informational Intermezzo: Concerning Proofs of God -- An Example: Thomas Aquinas -- A Necessary Ground for All that is -- The Decisive Presupposition -- The Actuality of Thought -- Intermezzo -- Anselm. Thought and Being -- Descartes. Subjectivity and Infinitude -- God as Ground and Measure -- The Experience of Limits and Openness -- An Abyss for Thought -- The Limits of Thought -- The Decisive Point: Thought and Being -- Contingency -- The Well-Ordered Cosmos -- The Scope of the Critique -- It Concerns the Entirety of Philosophy -- The Ideal of Pure Reason -- The Positive Turn -- Kant's Way: The Absoluteness of the Ought -- The Indisputable Moral "Fact" -- The Postulate of God's Existence -- The Limits of the Limits -- Critique of the Critique -- The Metaphysical Elan -- Auschwitz: The End of an Illusion? -- The Mystery of Evil -- Beyond Any Concept? -- The Sting of Moral Evil -- The Mystery of Freedom -- The Refusal of Adorno -- Kant: Evil and Freedom.

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