Religion after Metaphysics [Paperback]

The decline of metaphysics and the space this has opened for non-theological understandings of religion.How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion. In this volume, leading philosophers in the United States and Europe address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion.How should we understand religion, and what place should it hold, in an age in which metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions which supported traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is not clear how this 'end of metaphysics' should be understood, nor what implications it ought to have for our understanding of religion. In this volume, leading philosophers in the United States and Europe address the decline of metaphysics and the space which this decline has opened for non-theological understandings of religion.Contributions by leading philosophers in the United States and Europe address the decline of metaphysics and the gap that has developed for the non-theological analysis of religion. What role should religion play in society at a time when metaphysics has come into disrepute? The metaphysical assumptions behind traditional theologies are no longer widely accepted, but it is unclear as to how this end of metaphysics should be interpreted, or what implications it has for our comprehension of religion.List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Metaphysics and onto-theology Mark A. Wrathall; 2. Love and death in Nietzsche Robert Pippin; 3. After onto-theology: philosophy between science and religion Gianni Vattimo; 4. Anti-clericism and atheism Richal³!