Overview
- Presents a distinctive focus on Heideggers engagement with Nietzsche
- Seeks to assess whether Heidegger's conclusions about Nietzsche are correct
- Questions whether Heidegger's thinking overcomes the problems with Neitzsche's reductionism, so as to open up a new place for religious and theistic questions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book presents a reading of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy as an effort to strike a middle position between the philosophies of Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche. Duane Armitage interprets the history of Western philosophy as comprising a struggle over the meaning of “being,” and argues that this struggle is ultimately between materialism and idealism, and, in the end, between atheism and theism. This work therefore concerns the question of the meaning of the so called “death of God” in the context of contemporary Continental Philosophy.
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Duane Armitage is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Heidegger’s Pauline and Lutheran Roots (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Heidegger and the Death of God
Book Subtitle: Between Plato and Nietzsche
Authors: Duane Armitage
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67579-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67578-7Published: 20 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88451-6Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67579-4Published: 06 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 118