Christos Yannaras

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The Apophatic Horizon of Ontology

Basilio Petra(Autor*in)

James Clarke & Co Ltd (Verlag)

Erschienen am 29. August 2019

139 Seiten

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Basilio Petra sees Christos Yannaras (b. 1935) as a philosopher and theologian whose refiguring, on the one hand, of Heidegger's refusal to define being in ontic terms and, on the other, of Wittgenstein's willingness to admit the inexpressible character of the mystical has led him to articulate a powerful vision of true human existence. This bold interpretation outlines the passage from an ontic 'mode of nature' governed by necessity to a 'mode of self-transcendence and self-offering' beyond the limitations of decay and death.
In his native Greece, Yannaras revolutionised the way theology had been done for much of the twentieth century. This book examines the trajectory of Yannaras' thought from his initial encounter with Heidegger's philosophy to his formulation (via the tradition of the Greek Fathers) of a modern critical ontology. It is for both advanced students of philosophy and the growing scholarly audience interested in Yannaras' work. Written in accessible language that does not compromise intellectual rigour, it is the only survey of the development of Yannaras' philosophical thought as a whole.

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By testifying to the superabundance of God incarnate and of the Trinity, apophaticism is the seal of a theological and philosophical reflection which, in fidelity to classical metaphysics, does not shrink from asserting the value of ontology: theology is in reality a theory of being as Trinitarian Mystery. The Greek theologian [Christos Yannaras] proposes a reflection which, precisely because it is apophatic, is also a critical reflection on the Church and on the historical forms that are always inadequate with regard to the free breath of the Spirit
-Giacomo Canobbio

This book is a particularly welcome addition to the secondary literature of Yannaras, and it is truly successful as the first ever extensive introduction to the whole spectrum of his thought.
-Dr. Solitris Mitralexis, University of Athens & University of Winchester, Sobornost Journal

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Introduction
I. The discovery of Russian Orthodoxy: the West as a problem
1. From orthodox pietism to the discovery of personalism and Russian Orthodoxy
2. Dostoevsky's criticism of the West and the mission of Orthodoxy
II. The encounter with Heidegger and the ontological hermeneutic of the West.
1. Heidegger and the nihilistic outcome of Western metaphysics. The way beyond nihilism; Eastern apophaticism
2. Yannaras's 'Conversion to Ontology' and the discovery of the ontological difference with the West. The rediscovery of 'Greek metaphysics' and its connection with apophaticism.
3. Eastern apophaticism and Orthodox apologetics. The gnoseological topicality of apophaticism and its iconological character.
III. From the personalist ontology of the Fathers to a critical ontology. Between theology and philosophy
1. Person and Eros: A theological essay in post-Heideggarian ontology
2. A hermeneutic interval
3. The philosophical elaboration of a 'Critical Ontology.' The possibility of an 'apophatic rationalism.' The social fruitfulness of apophaticism
4. Propositions for a Critical Ontology. A 'revisionist empiricism'
IV. The Development of reflection on Critical Ontology.
1. From Person and Eros to What Can be Said and what Cannot be Said. The second 'Fundamental Stage' in Yannaras's thought.
2. Relational Ontology
V. Ontology and Salvation
1. Introductory considerations
2. 'Religionisation'; religion and the ontological distortion of Christianity
3. Against Religion. Natural religion, the religious transformation of Christianity, and the reshaping of the Church.
Epilogue
Christos Yannaras
The Communal Verification of Knowledge
1. The genesis of critical thought
2. Truth as mode
3. Correct thinking (orthos dianoeisthai) through correctly sharing in common (orthos koinonein)
4. A divisive empiricism
5. Symbol
6. Apophaticism
7. The historical eclipse of apophaticism
8. The incarnation of apophaticism in a culture
9. The counterfeiting of the ancient Greek enterprise
10. Gnoseology differentiates cultures
Bibliography
Index

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