Das Wagnis des Gewöhnlichen

Hunziker, Andreas  Das Wagnis des Gewöhnlichen. Ein Versuch über den Glauben im Gespräch mit Ludwig Wittgenstein und Stanley Cavell
2008. IX, 333 pages. RPT 32

ISBN 978-3-16-149591-5
sewn paper € 64.00

Andreas Hunziker

Das Wagnis des Gewöhnlichen

Ein Versuch über den Glauben im Gespräch mit Ludwig Wittgenstein und Stanley Cavell

[The Venture of the Ordinary. An Essay on Faith in a Conversation with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell.]

Published in German.

Is Christian faith possible without metaphysics? Is the idea of a non-metaphysical philosophy of religion or theology not contradictory in itself? In conversation with Wittgenstein's and Stanley Cavell's thinking, which is critical of metaphysics, Andreas Hunziker searches for a theology of the ordinary, which perceives the life of faith neither as "something which is behind nature and which makes it possible" nor as a skeptical denial of this metaphysical escapism. Its function is therapeutic, and consists of working through our metaphysical fantasies which keep us from seeing what it means to live in the midst of ordinary life . Christian faith is thus shown to be a way of recovering the ordinary, the turning from the actual ordinary to the possible ordinary.

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