Experiments in mystical atheism: godless epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and beyond
"Monotheist religion and secular science are locked in a seemingly zero-sum conflict. In Otherwise than God, Brook Ziporyn proposes an alternative to both these movements. According to Ziporyn, the spiritual maladies of humankind are not due to a lack of God, but because we have a choice betwee...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Monotheist religion and secular science are locked in a seemingly zero-sum conflict. In Otherwise than God, Brook Ziporyn proposes an alternative to both these movements. According to Ziporyn, the spiritual maladies of humankind are not due to a lack of God, but because we have a choice between either God or a halfway atheism. What we need, Ziporyn asserts, is a deep and thoroughgoing atheism, or a form of atheistic mysticism: not the humanistic rejection of religion, but the religious rejection of God. Atheistic mysticism may seem counterintuitive, but Otherwise than God is an argument for its existence and importance. Drawing on critiques of monotheist premises found in Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bataille, and various Daoist and Buddhist thinkers, Ziporyn first analyzes the entailments of the monotheist cultural complex. These figures and traditions serve as guides in a quest to overcome the impasse between theomania and meaning-starved secular empiricism. Ziporyn then works through the positive proposals of some of these thinkers in search of alternatives. Otherwise than God excavates what the "offending" premises of monotheism are (for those whom it offends) and reveals what possibilities open up if we suspend those premises." |
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Contents Preface xi INTRODUCTION 1 The Weird Idea God as Default? Preaching to the Choir Let’s Assume a Brain Tumor: Futile Attacks on Monotheistic Faith Atheism Postmonotheist and Nonmonotheist: Against and after Nancy Atheism as Uberpiety PART I The Sleeping Island 45 CHAPTER 1 Purposivity and Consciousness 47 Noûs as Arché: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time Design versus Infinity: Two Rival Explanations for the Intricacy of Existence Intelligible Good/s versus Infinite W/hole/s in Plato’s Symposium The Hypertrophy of Purposive Consciousness: Animism Gone Wild CHAPTER 2 Purposivity and Dichotomy 78 Ihe Purpose-Driven Life? No Thanks! The Great Asymmetry: Purpose Obstructs Purposelessness, but Purposelessness Enables Purposes vii
viii CONTENTS The Great Asymmetry Redux, Mutatis Mutandis: Chaos as Enabler and Encompasser of Order Daodejing: The Discovery of the Opposite of God The Moral Hazard of Moral Ideals CHAPTER 3 Purposivity and Personhood 113 What Is a “Person”? Control versus Necessity and the Dichotomization of Oneness and Difference Rethinking Personhood as Nonultimate Love contra the Ultimacy of Personhood God beyond Personhood? No, Not Really CHAPTER 4 Purposivity and Finitude 142 Tool, Control, Purpose, Thinghood: Bataille on God as Failed Religion Schopenhauer on the Suspension of the Principle of Sufficient Reason: How the Halfway Measure of “God” Obstructs the Absolute (or, Three out of Four Ain’t Bad) Toward the Synonymity of Conditionality and Unconditionality: Two Alternate Models of Omnipresence, Theistic and Atheistic Recap and Game Plan PART II Varieties of Atheist Beatitude 195 CHAPTER 5 Spinoza, or Intoxicating Sobriety 197 The Theological Proof of God’s Nonexistence Spinoza in Twelve Steps The Nonthing, the Only Thing, Everywhere, Eternally Truth as Adequacy as Moretoitivity The Big Rethink: Body, Mind, Cause, and Purpose Not Merely Parts of the Whole: How the Temporary Finite Mode I Am Is Also Eternal and Infinite Finitude as the Intersection of Two Infinities Beatific Vision, Spinoza Style Spinoza and Schopenhauer on the Universal Will as Unreason, Reason, and Both
CONTENTS IX CHAPTER 6 Nietzsche, or the Divinely Vicious Circle 279 Why Nietzsche Thought So Highly of This Wacko Idea Proof in the Pudding The Same Life Again Makes No Difference If Truly the Same The Absolute Affirmation of Anything Is the Affirmation of Absolutely Everything chapter 7 Bataille, or Fuckin’ Chaos 304 Godlessness as Liberation from Both Spirit and Matter and Several Versions of What Remains Beyond Will to Power as Will to Control: Squandering through the Gordian Knot of Purpose The Practice ofJoy before Death CONCLUSION Meaningfulness Revisited: Styles of Suffering, Sublimity, and Beatific Vision, Theistic and Atheistic 322 Acknowledgments 345 Appendixes 349 Notes 351 Bibliography 369 Index 373 |
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