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Introduction: improvising pietism -- The prayers and tears of young Fritz -- The euthanasia of Christianity -- The piety of Zarathustra -- Nietzsche's decadence -- Socrates' fate -- Wagner's redemption -- Paul's revenge -- Deconstructing the redeemer -- Nietzsche's musical askēsis -- We, too, are still pious

The first available introduction to the 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought. Starting with Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Henry, it also examines later works by the likes of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chretien: an essential read for anyone seeking an overview of this important strand of contemporary European thought.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World -- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence -- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality -- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety -- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of Ktisis -- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien -- Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo -- Refl ections from Thoreau's Concord -- Creation and the Glory of Creatures -- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs -- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, series editors