Deus Ex Metaphora: Gods of the Philosophers and Their Functions

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73593-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Philosophy of Religion - World Religions

“Would you trust God if he was undefined?” asked Elias Canetti. The work Deus ex Metaphora ponders why philosophers have created new and undefined concepts of divinity alongside the religious ones, and why they became hard to reconcile with religious traditions.
Nameless formulas created a new story of the divine. Despite the family resemblances, they have created a separate branch of images of divinity, in line with philosophy’s claims to universal, independent explanations. In this analysis of metaphors of the divine, referring to the metaphorology of Hans Blumenberg and historical semantics, the concept of the God of the philosophers becomes clear and distinct.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klemczak, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Klemczak is a philosopher and independent researcher at the Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University. He is interested in philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history and philosophy of religion. Recently, he published an article dedicated to the connections between biografistic and philosophical anthropology On What Remains of a Life. Of Biography Writing and Its Significance (Babelonline, Vol. 9, 2022); he is working on book on the question.