Being and God
Subtitle: a systematic approach in confrontation with Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Marion
By: Lorenz B. Puntel ; translated from the German by Alan White in collaboration with the author
Contributors: White, Alan, 1951-
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780810127708
Subjects: God; Ontology
Work titles: Sein und Gott
Notes: "Originally published in German as Sein und Gott: Ein systematischer Ansatz in Auseinandersetzung mit M. Heidegger, E. Levinas und J.-L. Marion by Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen, 2010"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1: Inadequate approaches to the question of God; title: 1.1. Initial clarifications; title: 1.2 Wholly unsystematic direct approaches; title: 1.3. Semi-systematic indirect approaches; title: 1.4. A wholly anti-systematic, anti-theoretical, and direct approach: Ludwig Wittgenstein; title: 1.5. A characteristic example of a failed critique: Thomas Nagel's objections to God as "last point"; title: Ch. 2. Heidegger's thinking of Being: the flawed development of a significant approach; title: 2.1. Heidegger's failed and distorting interpretation and critique of the Christian metaphysics of Being; title: 2.2. Heidegger's four approaches to "retrieving" the "question of being"; title: 2.3. What is unthought in Heidegger's thinking of Being I: Being-as-Ereignis; title: 2.4. What is unthought in Heidegger's "thinking of Being" II: Being and being(s)- Ereignis and Ereignete(s); title: 2.5. The "overcoming [Überwinding] of metaphysics" as "transformational recovering [Verwindung]" of metaphysics and "the end of the history of Being"; title: 2.6. The status of Heideggerian thinking I: thinking of Being as thinking within Ereignis, thinking that reaches its destination with Ereignis (Denken, das in das Ereignis einkehrt); title: 2.7. The status of Heideggerian thinking II: absolute claim, provisionality, the poverty of language, the language of thinking, the finitude of thinking; title: 2.8. Heidegger's thinking and the topic "God"; title: 2.9. Heidegger's "thinking": a fundamentally deficient and confused form of thinking; title: Ch. 3:The structural-systematic approach to a theory of Being and God; title: 3.1. The systematic context: the theoretical framework of the structural-systematic philosophy; title: 3.2. The unrestricted universe of discourse as the universal dimension of primordial Being; title: 3.3. Explication of the dimension of Being I: theory of Being as such; title: 3.4. Explication of the dimension of Being II: theory of Being as a whole; title: 3.5. Explication of the relation between absolutely necessary Being and the contingent dimension of Being as key to a conception of absolutely necessary Being as minded (as personal); title: 3.6. Absolutely necessary minded (personal) Being as creator of the world (as absolute creating); title: 3.7. The clarified relation between Being and God and the task of developing an integral theory about God; title: Ch. 4: Critical examination of two counterpositions: Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion; title: 4.1. Levinas's misguided conception of transcendence "beyond B/being"; title: 4.2. Jean-Luc Marion's failed conception of "radical and non-metaphysical transcendence" and of "God without Being".