Why is the Dialogue between Analytic Philosophy and “Postmetaphysicians” so Difficult? (remark)

Abstract

It is an appearance of reviews on the newest books of two very notorious representatives of analytic and “postmetaphysical” theology in this journal, while the second review refers to polemics between these two trends, that incites an attempt at making clear wherein their incompatibility consists anew. The author sees it in two peculiarities of postmetaphysical philosophizing, i.e. a diffusive texture of this type of discourse and its political bias conjoined with a pastime with concepts and words. The first peculiarity makes one detect its genetic code from somewhat another angle as usually takes place, not so much in Nitzschean and Heideggerean philosophy as in a type of generating texts in the Jena school of Romanticism. Herewith also differences are emphasized, in the first place much more creativity of Jena thinkers and their attempts at rather producing new religions than destruction of those existing.