Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. General Aspects
5. There is no “Being Itself” Beyond Beings – The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics 3
6. The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology 16
7. Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes 25
8. Beyond the Self Circle 39
9. Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective 54
10. Beyond the Species, or the ‘Beyond’ of Human Life? 66
11. Historical Structures
12. The Question of Beyond 81
13. Ideas – Presences – Practices 95
14. The Horror of Flawlessness 107
15. Living with Demons 121
16. Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance 138
17. Cultural Identities
18. The Mission as “Beyond” and Beyond the Mission 153
19. Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts 170
20. Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World 186
21. Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination 198
22. Here, There, and “Beyond” – Japanese Views on the Afterlife 212
23. Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven? 229
24. Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms 243
25. The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now 256
26. About the Authors 268