| Abstract |
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This paper is about Blumenberg’s
reading of a phrase of Luther’s: “Non potest
homo naturaliter velle deum esse deum, immo vellet se esse
deum et deum non esse deum.” The sentence poses the
existence of a necessary struggle, and an open hostility,
between man and God, inasmuch as the first cannot bear the
existential strain due to the unbridled omnipotence of the
second. This condition leads to two different strategies
that Blumenberg explores in two works, Die Legitimitat der
Neuzeit and Matthauspassion. In the first, man appears as
destined to make himself deus creatus against God; in the
second the renewal of a mythological stance towards divinity
seems to be the way to neutralise the struggle. But both
solutions lead to reopening the metaphysical enmity, and
the question arises if a godless humanity could not even
be a post-human humanity. |