Invoking the Beyond
The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man
The Gnostic revival of the Enlightenment witnessed the erection of what could be called the Kantian Rift, an epistemological barrier between external reality and the mind of the percipient. Arbitrarily proclaimed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant, this barrier rendered the world as a terra incognita. Suddenly, the world out there was deemed imperceptible and unknowable. In addition to the outer world, the cherished metaphysical certainties of antiquity-the soul, a transcendent order, and God-swiftly evaporated. The way was paved for a new set of modern mythmakers who would populate the world out there with their own surrogates for the Divin…
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Weitere Autoren: Collins, Phillip D.
- ISBN: 978-1-66321-351-8
- EAN: 9781663213518
- Produktnummer: 35503787
- Verlag: iUniverse
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 1178 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D6.2 cm 1'445 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 1445
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