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Acknowledgments | ix | |
1. | Introduction | 1 |
Three Writers Facing the Modern Challenges to Religion | 1 | |
Modernity: Religion as Construction | 5 | |
Anticipations of Postmodernism? | 11 | |
Technical Information and a Reflection on the Scope of This Study | 13 | |
2. | Lessing: Conceptual Differentiation, Critique of Tradition, and Acceptance of Plurality | 15 |
Introduction | 15 | |
Setting the Stage: Lessing's Historical Position and Contribution | 17 | |
Lessing's Aim | 23 | |
Truth and Human Development--Anthropological Teleology | 24 | |
Is There Religious Truth without Secure Historical Truth? Toward a New Notion of Natural Religion | 31 | |
The Background for Human Development in the Treatise on Education | 41 | |
The Relationship between Natural and Revealed Religion | 44 | |
On the Development of Religion and Religious Subjectivity in Christianity and Its Background | 46 | |
Plurality without Truth? | 53 | |
Lessing's Mediate Position as a Critic and a Mask Wearer | 55 | |
Relativizing the Impact of Religion--Transforming the Subject: Nathan as a Final Gateway to Lessing's Understanding of Religion | 59 | |
Concluding Remarks | 69 | |
3. | Kierkegaard: Irony and the Struggle for Authentic Appropriation of Religion: Anticipations of Postmodern Attitudes, Insights, and Problems | 75 |
Kierkegaard's Dissertation on Irony Read as a Prolegomenon to Postmodernism | 76 | |
Socratic Irony | 77 | |
Romantic Irony and Christian Faith | 85 | |
Conclusion: As a Mastered Element, Irony Creates Reality | 87 | |
Faith, Truth, and History--Kierkegaard's Answer to Lessing | 88 | |
The Religious Mode of Existence: Subjectivity as Passion for Truth | 101 | |
Faith Shapes the Development of Subjectivity | 107 | |
Decontextualized Individuality | 112 | |
Different Modes of Religious Subjectivity | 116 | |
Conclusion: Religion and the Quest for Self-Formation--a Postmodern Interpretation | 121 | |
4. | Nietzsche: The Deconstruction of Religion as an Expression of Powerless and Self-Deceptive Subjectivity | 131 |
Who Is Nietzsche--and Where Is He? | 131 | |
Critique of Language as a Constituting Element of Subjectivity | 135 | |
Perspectivism and Plurality | 143 | |
Annihilation of the Metaphysical World, Consequently: Dissolving Radical Otherness | 149 | |
The Concept of God as an Expression of Human Subjectivity | 152 | |
The Death of God | 162 | |
Relating to History: The Productivity of Life in the Subject | 167 | |
Concluding Reflections | 173 | |
5. | Conclusion | 181 |
Formation of the Self | 181 | |
Religion's Contribution to Humanity | 186 | |
The Relation to History: Criticism and Suppositions | 188 | |
Reflections on the Role of the Other and of Otherness | 190 | |
Irony and Double Reflexivity | 194 | |
Literature | 201 | |
Index | 207 |
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