Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism

Abraham absurd authenticity aware become belief Bestand Cartesian Christian claim conceptions conditionality constituted contingency course Dasein Descartes devaluation discipline divine earth ego-subject end-of-century eternal ethical existence faith Fear and Trembling finally finite fundamental G. E. M. Anscombe godhead gods Heidegger calls Heidegger's human ideal identity imagination immanent individual inevitable infinite resignation intellectual interpretation Johannes Kierkegaard kind knight of faith Lichtung lives lover Mann Gulch Mann Gulch fire Martin Heidegger means metaphysical mood mortal Nietzsche Nietzsche's Nietzschean normal nihilism normal nihilists notion obedience object one's oneself ordinary ourselves particular Pathos perhaps philosophical Plato poetic dwelling possible presence profane question reality recognition recognize religion representation res cogitans Richard Rorty self-awareness sense social practices Socrates sort specific story structure things Thoreau thought tion tradition transcendental subjectivity trope true world truth universal values Western religiousness Yahweh Yahwist