Religiosität als Differenzerfahrung
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Katia Hansen
Abstract
The article deals with the question of the position and status of religiosity within a philosophical-anthropological determination of man and compares the approaches of Sören Kierkegaard and Helmuth Plessner. Both thinkers seek to understand religiosity within the context of noticeably analogous notions of man as a ‘self’. Through the concepts of “despair” (Kierkegaard) and “eccentric positionality” (Plessner), they describe man as a precarious relation of identity and difference, whose unity has to be constantly redefined and performed by himself. Thus, being a self also means being free. Representing only a limited and finite form of freedom however, human beings remain banned in the boundaries of, for example, their corporeality and sociality, from which they are also elevated. Because of its fragmentary and temporary constitution, the self ultimately finds itself referred to transcendence as a last possibility of obtaining unity. Both Kierkegaard and Plessner locate the possibility of religiosity at this intersection of freedom and transcendency, what allows to understand Religious experience as an experience of difference
Abstract
The article deals with the question of the position and status of religiosity within a philosophical-anthropological determination of man and compares the approaches of Sören Kierkegaard and Helmuth Plessner. Both thinkers seek to understand religiosity within the context of noticeably analogous notions of man as a ‘self’. Through the concepts of “despair” (Kierkegaard) and “eccentric positionality” (Plessner), they describe man as a precarious relation of identity and difference, whose unity has to be constantly redefined and performed by himself. Thus, being a self also means being free. Representing only a limited and finite form of freedom however, human beings remain banned in the boundaries of, for example, their corporeality and sociality, from which they are also elevated. Because of its fragmentary and temporary constitution, the self ultimately finds itself referred to transcendence as a last possibility of obtaining unity. Both Kierkegaard and Plessner locate the possibility of religiosity at this intersection of freedom and transcendency, what allows to understand Religious experience as an experience of difference
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Vorbemerkungen und Danksagungen V
- Inhalt VII
- Religiöses Erleben, soziokulturelle Vermittlung und die Frage nach dem Menschen. Systematische Einleitung 1
- Emotionale Tiefe und die Spielarten der affektiven Intentionalität 31
- Phänomenologie des religiösen Erlebnisses 55
- Religion, religiöses Gefühl und artikulierte Religionskultur 75
- Naturalisierung des Heiligen 97
- Religiosität als Differenzerfahrung 127
- Lost in Enlightenment 155
- Das Wertproblem und die religiösen Werte – eine Bestandsaufnahme 181
- Lokalisierung und Apologetik 211
- Person und Welt 231
- Eine ‚neue‘ Metaphysik. Das Verhältnis von Mensch und Gott in Max Schelers Spätphilosophie 251
- Der lebensphilosophische Unergründlichkeitsgedanke und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische Anthropologie 273
- Personenverzeichnis 285
- Sachverzeichnis 291
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Vorbemerkungen und Danksagungen V
- Inhalt VII
- Religiöses Erleben, soziokulturelle Vermittlung und die Frage nach dem Menschen. Systematische Einleitung 1
- Emotionale Tiefe und die Spielarten der affektiven Intentionalität 31
- Phänomenologie des religiösen Erlebnisses 55
- Religion, religiöses Gefühl und artikulierte Religionskultur 75
- Naturalisierung des Heiligen 97
- Religiosität als Differenzerfahrung 127
- Lost in Enlightenment 155
- Das Wertproblem und die religiösen Werte – eine Bestandsaufnahme 181
- Lokalisierung und Apologetik 211
- Person und Welt 231
- Eine ‚neue‘ Metaphysik. Das Verhältnis von Mensch und Gott in Max Schelers Spätphilosophie 251
- Der lebensphilosophische Unergründlichkeitsgedanke und seine Bedeutung für die philosophische Anthropologie 273
- Personenverzeichnis 285
- Sachverzeichnis 291
