Did the Reformation introduce a new approach to philosophy? How did it influence key thinkers in the history of modern philosophy? The contributions in this volume discuss the Reformation as a philosophical event in the early modern era – and its astonishing impact on key issues in philosophy until today.
Did the Reformation introduce a new approach to philosophy? How did this historical caesura influence key thinkers in the history of modern philosophy up to the twenty-first century?
This volume discusses the Reformation as a
philosophical event in the early modern era – and its astonishing impact on key issues in philosophy until today. The contributors analyse central patterns of Luther's thinking from a philosophical angle and identify essential traits from the Reformation in modern philosophy, for example, in Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. The volume also includes texts on contemporary phenomenology, aesthetics, political philosophy, and pragmatism, where Paul, Luther, Protestantism, and Marxism have experienced a revival. Finally, authors also discuss Jewish and Islamic approaches to philosophy in the wake of the Reformation.
Survey of contents
Marius Timmann Mjaaland: Introduction
I. Re-Formation of Philosophy in Christianity and Islam
Philipp Stoellger: Reformation as Reformatting Religion: The Shift of Perspective and Perception by Faith as Medium –
Safet Bektovic: The Signs of a Hidden God: Dialectics of Veiling and Unveiling God in Islam –
Marius Timmann Mjaaland: On the Path of Destruction: Luther, Kant and Heidegger on Divine Hiddenness and Transcendence
II. Philosophy in the Wake of the Reformation
Burkhard Nonnenmacher: Hegel's Philosophy of Religion and Luther –
Stian Grøgård: A Note on Revelation and the Critique of Reason in Schelling's Late Philosophy –
Jayne Svenungsson: Idealism Turned against Itself: From Hegel to Rosenzweig –
Jörg Disse: Immediate Certainty and the Morally Good: Luther, Kierkegaard and Cognitive Psychology –
Jan-Olav Henriksen: The Reformer in the Eyes of a Critic: Nietzsche's Perception and Presentation of Luther
III. Reformation, Phenomenology and Metaphysics
Rasmus Nagel: Continuing the Discontinuity: Luther, Badiou and the Reformation –
Patrick Ebert: A Phenomenological Inquiry about Transcendence as Radical Alterity –
Taylor Weaver: Revolution of Passivity: Agamben on Paul and Politics –
Svein Aage Christoffersen: The Beginning: K. E. Løgstrup's Metaphysics of Existence in the 1930s –
Dorthe Jørgensen: Protestantism and Its Aesthetic Discontents
IV. Critique, Protest and Reform
Ulf Zackariasson: Religious Agency as Vehicle and Source of Critique: A Pragmatist Contribution –
Timo Koistinen: The Personal in Philosophy of Religion –
Atle Ottesen Søvik: Are the Lutheran Confessions Inconsistent in What They Say on Free Will? –
Sven Thore Kloster: Community of Conflict: Towards an Agonistic Theology with Chantal Mouffe and Kathryn Tanner –
Øystein Brekke: Critique of Religion, Critique of Reason: Criticising Religion in the Classroom
