The former would include the ambiguity of transcendental presence, the process of secularization; the latter, the dynamics of emergent ration- alism and the thrust of postulatory atheism, particularly in Prome- thean form. [...] The ancient myth was a powerful tale of Titanic revolt: the theft of fire and the gift of the sacrificial meal; the power and cost of knowledge: suffering and redemption. [...] Ugo Bianchi considers the Prometheus myth to symbolize the new trafficb between gods and humans, born of the sense of guilt: "Una visione olimpica della 'colpa antecedente' nel mondo greco." Thus a soteriological perspective is achieved, a clarification of the tension between Olympian and mystical views of the origins of divine and human culpability.6 The Creatures of Prometheus The revolt of the [...] The rest- less seeking and striving, the ambition and pride associated with the titanic struggles and Olympian story, offer a warning of the destiny awaiting the protege of the giver of techne. [...] The importance of the signs of the zodiac is part of the dynamics of light and darkness.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Acknowledgments 14
- Preface 16
- Introduction: Types of Atheism 20
- PART I: THE CLASSICAL DILEMMA 30
- 1. Loaded Questions: Zeus or Prometheus? God or Freedom? 32
- Gods for All Seasons 32
- Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies 35
- Aeschylus 36
- The Creatures of Prometheus 38
- Consequences 41
- Goethe's Prometheus 42
- Playing with Fire 44
- 2. Prometheus and/or Christ 48
- Apology and Typology 48
- The Sin of Pride 52
- Satan and Other Heroes 54
- Thomas Merton 58
- 3. The Promethean Spirit 62
- The Classical Age 62
- Sophists 64
- Sceptics 65
- The Charge Against Socrates 66
- Epicurus 68
- Classical Theism 71
- PART II: UNBINDING PROMETHEUS 80
- 4. Rebirth of Will: Renaissance 82
- "Renaissance Man'' 82
- Pico on Dignity 84
- Coming of Age 86
- Reformation and Scholasticism 88
- Renaissance Magus 90
- Fideism and Scepticism 91
- 5. Reason and the Lightbearer 94
- Francis Bacon 94
- René Descartes 98
- Deism and Atheism 100
- Prometheus Pursued 103
- Signs of the Times 105
- The Study of Mankind 108
- The Energy of Reason 113
- Immanuel Kant 114
- Fear of Death and Fear of Life 120
- 6. Romance and the Firekindler 122
- L'explosion du "Moi" 122
- Poet as Titan 124
- Byron 127
- Shelley 130
- The Romantic Spirit at Large 135
- PART III: END OF ENLIGHTENMENT 140
- 7. The Speculative Death of God: Hegel, Feuerbach 142
- On Behalf of Absolute Spirit 142
- Dialectic: Cow with Three Stomachs? 143
- Religion as Freedom and Alienation 146
- Master and Slave 147
- The Death of God 149
- Hegel's Offspring 152
- Ludwig Feuerbach 154
- A Lutheran Heritage? 156
- Materialism and Method 159
- 8. The Practical Death of God: Marx, Engels, Lenin 164
- Marx before Marxism 164
- Critical Philosophy and the Criticism of Religion 166
- Engels on Religion 167
- The Reformation: A Case Study 170
- Worldly Philosophy 173
- Religion and Alienation 176
- Søren Kierkegaard 180
- Opium of the People 181
- Dostoevsky's Russia 184
- Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov: Lenin 187
- Opium for the People 190
- 9. Re-Visioning Marxism 192
- Marxism as Religion 192
- Ernst Bloch 194
- Marxist-Christian Dialogue 199
- Spring Comes to Prague 200
- Christus oder Prometheus? – Lochman 202
- How Dead is God? – Gardavsky 205
- Jesus for Atheists – Machovec 209
- PART IV: THE RETURN OF IDOLS 212
- 10. The Complex of Oedipus – Freud 214
- Atheist and Jew 215
- Archaic Heritage 219
- Oedipus and the Religious Illusion 220
- Oedipus at the Crossroads 223
- Life against Death 226
- From Oedipus to Moses 229
- 11. The Dance of Dionysus – Nietzsche 232
- The Will to Power 232
- Beyond Nihilism 234
- Genealogy and Morality 237
- "God ls Dead" 241
- A Dithyramb for Dionysus 243
- Ecce Homo Volens 247
- 12. The Work of Sisyphus – Camus 252
- Indifference and Absurdity 253
- Lutte, toujours! 255
- Secular Sainthood 258
- A Kind of Atheism 264
- Total Justice: The Judge in Hell 267
- 13. The Fate of Orestes – Sartre 274
- Lord of the Flies 274
- "I am my freedom" 278
- "Hell is Others" 283
- "I desire to be God" 285
- 14. Conclusion: Faith beyond Zeus-Prometheus 290
- The Lonely "I" 290
- The Decline of Sex 292
- Autonomy, Heteronomy – and "Theonomy''? 293
- The Paradox of Omnipotence 298
- Neither Zeus nor Prometheus 303
- The Ambivalence of Atheism: A Double Irony 305
- Prometheus Ascending 308
- Bibliographical Note 312
- Notes 314
- Index 376
- A 376
- B 376
- C 377
- D 377
- E 377
- F 378
- G 378
- H 378
- I 379
- J 379
- K 379
- L 379
- M 380
- N 380
- O 380
- P 381
- Q 381
- R 381
- S 382
- T 382
- U 383
- V 383
- W 383
- X 383
- Z 383
