{"product_id":"making-the-heavens-speak-religion-as-poetry-paperback-softback-9781509547500","title":"Making the Heavens Speak; Religion as Poetry (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509547500","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking the Heavens Speak\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligion as Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Sloterdijk (Author), Robert Hughes (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509547500, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 December 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Religion is poetry, poetry is religion, and both are concerned with the 'overarching' that is at once cosmic and political. The avatars of this triple connectivity, and what happens to it when the overarching becomes paradoxically contested, are brilliantly explored in this new book. Agree with Peter Sloterdijk or not, he will assist you to think further about what is truly fundamental to our human existence and its future.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Milbank, University of Nottingham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sloterdijk once again proves to both his followers and his critics that the reputation of his work as a rich set of traditions of intellectual inquiry [. . .] is justified.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing. In the centuries after Homer, the Athenian stage became the setting where gods made their poetic interventions, resolving human impasses and contributing to the emotional synchronization of the public life of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSloterdijk argues that, as with the culture of the Ancient Greeks, all religions inscribe a kind of “theopoetry” at the heart of their cultural life and thought, even as they strenuously obscure these poetic origins through the cultivation and enforcement of orthodox norms. Sloterdijk also shows how, in conditions of religious pluralism, religions poetically reshape themselves to accommodate the demands of the religious marketplace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis highly original study of the poetic devices that inform accounts of the otherworldly offers a new interpretation of religious practice and its theological elaboration through history, as well as a fresh perspective on our contemporary age in which collective life, interwoven with imaginative fabrications, is fraying under critical stress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Deus ex machina, Deus ex cathedra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The gods in the theater\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Plato's contestation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Of the true religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Representing God, being God: an Egyptian solution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 On the best of all possible heaven dwellers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Poetries of power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Dwelling in plausibilities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The theopoetical difference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Revelation whence?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The death of the gods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 'Religion is unbelief': Karl Barth's intervention\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 In the garden of infallibility: Denzinger’s world\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII Under the high heavens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Fictive belonging together\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Twilight of the gods and sociophany\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Glory: poems of praise\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Poetry of patience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Poetry of exaggeration: religious virtuosos and their excesses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Kerygma, propaganda, supply-side offense, or, When fiction is not to be trifled with\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 On the prose and poetry of the search\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Religious freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn lieu of an afterword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475065237784,"sku":"9781509547500","price":17.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509547500.jpg?v=1785803977","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-the-heavens-speak-religion-as-poetry-paperback-softback-9781509547500","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}