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Deus ex Metaphora: Gods of the Philosophers and Their Functions
Series: - Philosophy of Religion - World Religions, Volume: 11
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“Would you trust God if he was undefined?” asked Elias Canetti. The work Deus ex Metaphora ponders why philosophers have created new and undefined concepts of divinity alongside the religious ones, and why they became hard to reconcile with religious traditions. Nameless formulas created a new story of the divine. Despite the family resemblances, they have created a separate branch of images of divinity, in line with philosophy’s claims to universal, independent explanations. In this analysis of metaphors of the divine, referring to the metaphorology of Hans Blumenberg and historical semantics, the concept of the God of the philosophers becomes clear and distinct.
Stefan Klemczak is a philosopher and independent researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University. He is interested in philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history and philosophy of religion. Recently, he published an article dedicated to the connections between biografistic and philosophical anthropology On What Remains of a Life. Of Biography Writing and Its Significance (Babelonline, Vol. 9, 2022); he is working on book on the question.
Introduction
1 The God of the Philosophers as a Subcontractor
2 Metaphors and Things
3 Homo Mentiens
4 Epochal Thresholds and the Theory of Reception
5 Ancient Models of the Concept of the God of the Philosophers
6 A God of Unlimited Possibilities
7 The Consequences of the Copernican Revolution
8 The Deist Turning Point
9 Geist—Concepts of Divinity and History
10 “The God of Whom Thought Can Think”
11 Replacements
Conclusion: The Metamorphoses of the God of the Philosophers
Bibliography
Index
Part 1: What Does the Complex Concept of the God of the Philosophers Mean?
1 The God of the Philosophers as a Subcontractor
Part 2: Methods and Premises
2 Metaphors and Things
3 Homo Mentiens
4 Epochal Thresholds and the Theory of Reception
Part 3: Histories
5 Ancient Models of the Concept of the God of the Philosophers
6 A God of Unlimited Possibilities
7 The Consequences of the Copernican Revolution
8 The Deist Turning Point
9 Geist—Concepts of Divinity and History
10 “The God of Whom Thought Can Think”
11 Replacements
Conclusion: The Metamorphoses of the God of the Philosophers
Bibliography
Index
The book will be of interest mainly to academics, researchers and students of philosophy, cultural studies, and religious studies. It may be of interest to theologians and historians. Thematic areas: history of philosophy, philosophical methods, images of the world, horizons of theory, criticism of metaphysics.