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OverviewSt. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, ""My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"" Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Blumenberg's guide through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental Matthauspassion, the parabolic mirror that bundled eighteen hundred years of reflection on the fate of the crucified and the only available medium that allows us post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed the events of the Passion. With interspersed references to writers such as Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Freud, and Benjamin, Blumenberg gathers evidence to raise the singular question that, in his view, Christian theology has not been able to answer: How can an omnipotent God be so offended by his creatures that he must sacrifice and abandon his own Son? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hans Blumenberg , Helmut Müller-Sievers , Paul FlemingPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501705809ISBN 10: 1501705806 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 15 November 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. The Horizon Pacing Off the Horizon The One Author of the One Story The Beginning of Wisdom Relief—or Even More? The Theological Generosity of the St. Matthew Passion Saving the 'Implied Listener' from Historical Reason The Metaphorical Horizon The Ransom The Lamb And the Listening Never Ends An Apostrophe Goethe Could Not Understand Imagining Nietzsche Listening to the St. Matthew Passion Listening to Rilke as He Listens to the St. Matthew Passion Wittgenstein's Mother 'Never Will This Child Be Crucified...' 2. Escalations of a God If It Was This One, It Can Be No Other An Aesthetics of Creation: How It Justifies the Existence of the World God Refuses to Be Transparent Time and Again: What Happened in Paradise? The Magnification of God The Work of the Patriarchs and the Work of Music Abraham's Fear of God, Thought to the End: The Lamb, Not the Ram 3. Corporeality The Incarnation of the Word as an Offense to the Angels Countermove: The Angel of the Annunciation God's Entanglement in the World Since When Am I? Since When Was This One? Why So Late? A Fulfilled Promise 4. Apostates The Comic Element of Simon Peter The Denial Becomes Defamation The One Driven by Great Expectations When Someone Becomes Too Old to Reach for Dominion Visit to a Stone That Almost Cried Out The Realism of the Field of Blood The Pieces of Silver 5. Between Two Murderers Jesus's Susceptibility to Temptation Barabbas and the Authentic Words of Jesus The 'Two Murderers' on Golgotha 'He Calls for Elijah!' The Primal Scream Theological Defense and Human Recovery No Martyrdom The Last Word in the Passion of Saint John The Witness of the Fourth Evangelist 6. The Tears 'We Sit Down in Tears...' Unto the Sealed Tomb Tears of the Father, Only to Be Thought Paul Weeps The Power of Tears over Omnipotence 7. The Imperceptibility of the Messiah Caravaggio's Emmaus Traces From the Unwritten A Misinterpreted Agraphon The Messianic: Prophet and Sybil The Risk of Still Waiting for the Messiah Messianic Minimalism The Desperate Messianism of the Second Rome The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven Remembering Origen 8. The Excesses of the Philosophers' GodReviewsHans Blumenberg's St. Matthew Passion is a profound and passionate examination of the philosopher's central theme of Christian faith and the passion of the Son of God. -Thomas Erne, Zeitzeichen (reviewing the German edition) Hans Blumenberg's St. Matthew Passion is a profound and passionate examination of the philosopher's central theme of Christian faith and the passion of the Son of God. -Thomas Erne, Zeitzeichen (reviewing the German edition) -- Cornell University Press Author InformationHans Blumenberg (1920–1996) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. Among his many books that have been translated into English are Paradigms for a Metaphorology and Rigorism of Truth. Helmut Müller-Sievers is Professor of German at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of several books, including The Science of Literature. Paul Fleming is the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities and the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He is author of The Pleasures of Abandonment and Exemplarity and Mediocrity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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