Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious motives is deeply ambiguous since new forms of metaphysical and religious experience re-emerge in his philosophical works. Heidegger shares this ambiguous relation to the notions of faith and religion with authors such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein whose works are also marked by a critique of metaphysics and by a characteristic rethinking of the role of faith and religion. In fact, all three still remain, among other things, reference points for contemporary philosophical debates relating to the phenomenon of religion and faith. Rethinking Faith explores how the phenomena of religion and faith are present in the works of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, and how these phenomena are brought into play in their discussion of the classical metaphysical motives they criticize.

AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroductionPart 1: The Phenomenon of Religion1. Understanding Religious Faith: A Hermeneutical ApproachBen Vedder (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)2. Is Ontology the Last Form of Idolatry? A Dialogue between Heidegger and MarionClaudio Tarditi (University of Turin, Italy)3. A Religious End of Metaphysics? Heidegger, Meillassoux, and the Question of FideismJussi Backman (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)Part 2: Faith and Reason4. "How we, too, are still pious.": The Status of Truth and the Irreducibility of Faith in the Work of NietzscheCarlotta Santini (Princeton University, USA)5. Dionysius, Apollo, and other Göttliche: Denial and Excess of Meaning in Nietzsche, Heidegger and WittgensteinTobias Keiling (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)6. "A way of living, or a way of assessing life": Wittgenstein on Faith, Reason, and PhilosophyChantal Bax (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)7. A Question of Faith: Heidegger's Destructed Concept of Faith as the Origin of Questioning in PhilosophyVincent Blok (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)Part 3: Pauline Resonances8. Heidegger on Religious Faith: The Development of Heidegger's Thinking about Faith between 1920 and 1928Ezra Delahaye (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)9. The Experience of Contingency and the Attitude to Life: Nietzsche and Heidegger on PaulGert-Jan van der Heiden (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)10. Paul as a Challenge for Contemporary Philosophers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and AgambenAntonio Cimino (Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands)Index