This volume, edited by Lucilla Guidi and Thomas Rentsch, establishes the first systematic connection between phenomenology and performativity. On the one hand, it outlines the performativity of phenomenology by exploring its enactment and the transformation of attitude it effects; this exploration is conducted through a number of parallels between phenomenology and the ancient understanding of philosophy as an exercise and a way of life. On the other hand, the volume examines different notions of performativity from a phenomenological perspective, so as to show that a phenomenological understanding of embodied experience complements a linguistic account of performativity and can also offer a ground for bodily practices of resistance, critique, and self-transformation in our own day and age.

To what extent is our own (political) practice based on transcendence, and what meaning do we attribute to inaccessible transendence in our human condition? This volume explores these questions in Kant s political and religious philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective (philosophy, political science, theology), thus reaching beyond Kantian philosophy."

The studies in this volume investigate the philosophical, theological, and aesthetic importance of the connection between fundamental philosophical questions of the structure and forms of transcendence and the concept of negativity . The pieces lead to a deeper view of the systematic connection between transcendence and negativity and explore the implications of this connection for a rational and reflective understanding of self and world as well as for the cultural form of a humane world."

Rentsch moechte die Frage nach Gott rational-reflexiv und theoretisch-argumentativ zuruckgewinnen und den Weg zu einem geklarten, erneuerten Gottesverstandnis aufzeigen. Er analysiert verbreitete Missverstandnisse der Rede und Praxis mit Bezug auf Gott und entwickelt eine negative philosophische Theologie fur die Gegenwart. Anhand der Frage, "Welchen Sinn hat es, von Gott zu reden?" erarbeitet er ein kritisches Transzendenzverstandnis nach Aufklarung und Moderne und ein innovatives philosophisches Verstandnis der Einzigkeit Gottes, der Gottesbeweise, des Jenseits und der Ewigkeit. Schliesslich behauptet Rentsch im Kontext exemplarischer Analysen zu Kant, Wittgenstein und weiteren Autoren die "Unvermeidbarkeit philosophischer Theologie".