Narrative Ontology Hutter Axel
Narrative Ontology Hutter Axel This book is a critical inquiry into three ideas that have been at the heart of philosophical reflection since time immemorial: freedom, God and immortality. We barely…
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Narrative Ontology Hutter Axel
This book is a critical inquiry into three ideas that have been at the heart of philosophical reflection since time immemorial: freedom, God and immortality. We barely pay attention to the latter two ideas, and the notion of freedom is used so loosely today that it has become vacuous. Their inherent connection has disappeared from our thought.
Through his reading of Mann's novel, Hutter explores these three ideas in a distinctive way. Axel Hutter's book seeks to remind philosophy of its distinct task: only in understanding itself as human self-knowledge that articulates itself in these three ideas will philosophy do justice to its own concept.In developing this line of argument, Hutter finds an ally in Thomas Mann, whose novel Joseph and his Brothers has more to say about freedom, God and immortality than most contemporary philosophy does. He brings out the intimate