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On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite

On the Absence and Unknowability of God: Heidegger and the Areopagite

Louth, Andrew
Yannaras, Christos
Ventis, Haralambos

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0567045323
ISBN13: 9780567045324
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Feb 14 2007
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.49 Width: 4.54 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

This book, one of the earliest by Christos Yannaras, was first published in 1967 and has become a contemporary classic. Yannaras begins by outlining Heidegger's analysis of the fate of western metaphysics, which ends, he argues, in a nihilistic atheism. Yannaras's response is largely to accept Heidegger's analysis, but to argue that, although it applies to the western tradition of what Heidegger calls onto theology (which regards God as a 'being', even if the highest), it does not take account of the Orthodox tradition of apophatic theology, of which Dionysius the Areopagite is a pre-eminent example. A God 'beyond being' escapes the criticism of Heidegger, and provides an alternative to Heidegger's nihilistic conclusion.

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