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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"death of God"”.
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Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God
The poetry of Jim Morrison, as opposed to his lyric verse, has been the subject of little critical examination. The aim of this paper is to open up an understanding and interpretation of a mythographic landscape developed by Morrison in his response to existence in a demythologised western culture. …
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The Death of God: An Analysis of the Existential Solutions to the Problem of Nihilism
The problem of nihilism has plagued individuals, philosophers, and wider society throughout history. Nihilism is most understood as the process in which our beliefs and values become meaningless or devoid of value. The rise of Nihilism can be traced to the nineteenth century when scientific …
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Economic Theology and the Death of God in the Context of the Crisis of Neoliberalism
<p>In light of the ongoing political and economic crises in the twenty-first century, this study aims to apply the discourse of political theology, alongside Nietzsche’s concept of the death of God to an understanding of neoliberalism and the problems it faces on a global level. However, because of …
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“Fall” and Redemption in the Thought of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan
… examines and develops Martin Heidegger’s concept of “falling” as a significant historical-philosophical principle. Falling, however, is primarily understood as a concept of the early Heidegger, whereas I argue that Heidegger continues to rely upon it, both explicitly and implicitly, throughout his …
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The Unanswered Question: The Ethical Implications and Aesthetic Limitations of the Unsayable
Chapter Three is an exploration of Jabes's massive revaluation of God and the covenant in the Book of Questions. His seven volumes constitute an extended rhapsody on the death of God. Moving through the violent murder of the absolute, speaking God, his volumes provide a reconstruction of God in the …
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Blood, death and desert: engaging with radical theology through art practice, history, and theory
… theology, the desert landscape, blood, and death. It is practice-as-research comprising both constructed and documentary photography, combined with interdisciplinary research into art history, contemporary Evangelical Christian visual culture, the art and landscape of the Great Basin and …
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(Extra)Ordinary evenings in New H(e)aven: the religious element in the poetics of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was profoundly affected by Nietzsche’s declaration of the death of God and his poetry reflects an ongoing struggle to understand what it means to be a poet in an age of disbelief. Although Steven’s early poetry suggests that this loss of belief created a sense of crisis in the poet, …
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Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
<p>This thesis is a Nietzschean analysis of Meiji Restoration hero Sakamoto Ryoma (1835 - 1867). It discusses the life and times of Sakamoto and basic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). It argues that despite vastly different historical, cultural, and ideological backgrounds, Sakamoto …
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Slavoj Zizek, Radical Theology, and the Materialist Defense of Christianity
This thesis explores the theological assertions of the philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Žižek, an atheist and a materialist, has produced a rather substantial body of work concerning Christianity in general and Christian theology specifically. My aim here is several. First, to provide an intellectual …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
In this dissertation, I argue for the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy on four significant writers of twentieth century American literature: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, and Sylvia Plath. First, I establish the pervasiveness of Nietzsche's …
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The Sickness Unto Life: Nietzsche's Diagnosis of the Christian Condition
… attention has been given to Nietzsche's critique of Christianity as a disease, while too much has been given to the theme of the death of God. Nietzsche's use of the language of health to describe Christianity is not a mere side-effect of his mid-career embrace of the natural sciences; rather, it …
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Compositions of crisis: Sound and silence in the films of Bergman and Tarkovsky
This thesis examines seven films from the cinemas of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky—Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), and The Silence (1963), and Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986). These films were …
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Compositions of crisis: Sound and silence in the films of Bergman and Tarkovsky
This thesis examines seven films from the cinemas of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky—Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), and The Silence (1963), and Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986). These films were …
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Nietzsche, Sin and Redemption
In this thesis, I use the work of Friedrich Nietzsche to offer a detailed account of existential sin. I show that existential sin as a form of self-understanding is deeply embedded in the Christian theological tradition, and that Nietzsche’s account of existential sin should be understood as part …
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Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
… I argue for his positive philosophy of religion, and for an affirmative religiousness of his own which finds expression in the figures of Dionysus and Zarathustra. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity must not be taken for hostility toward religion in general: he insists upon its uses …
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Thinking Outside Pandora's Box: Now That the Idea of God Has Been Declared Dead, Has All Hope Been Lost for Philosophy and Humankind?
… The time has come.</p><p> Now that the Idea of God has been declared dead, an egocentric action that opened Pandora's box, many evils plague humankind. Thus, human life has no meaning. Humanism has been devalued. Philosophy gets no respect. All Hope has been lost.</p><p> II. Statement of the …
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Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy
… Nietzsche is well known as the philosopher of the tragic view of life. Because we are part of the world of becoming the tragic view maintains that human beings are given over to certain limits that we cannot transcend. These include ourselves as finite beings, the recognition that noumenal …
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To say nothing of the existence of God : the question of Martin Heidegger's later work for contemporary theology.
… for 'fundamental theology' or that area of theological thought which is concerned with the nature of God, of creation and of being human. Heidegger has had an astonishing influence on not just one, but several movements in 20th century theology, having influenced Catholic and Protestant …