Nothingness, Metanarrative, and Possibility

by William E. Marsh


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 8/14/2009

Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 1
ISBN : 9781467876568
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 432
ISBN : 9781438997216

About the Book

What is the solution to human angst and nothingness, the gnawing emptiness and frustration with the lim-its and fragility of this present existence?  After reviewing the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean Paul Sartre on this question, this work argues that the proper re-sponse must be metaphysical metanarrative, a transcendent metaphysical metanarrative that is the ground of all that is, yet a metaphysical metanarrative that makes the fullness of meaning available and apprehen-sible in physical experience.  This metanarrative, this work asserts, is the logos, the ultimate referent prin-ciple of the ancient Greeks and, according to Christianity, the God-man Jesus Christ, the eternal become present in present experience.  Because the logos constitutes transcendence in human form, it recognizes the beauty of existential experience even as it underscores the necessity of transcendence for temporal meaning.  The logos as metaphysical metanarrative brings the worlds of time and eternity together, link-ing earth and the beyond in a seamless whole.  It is the ultimate existential experience.


About the Author

William E. Marsh, who holds masters and doctoral degrees in theology, history, and philosophy, is a writer and teacher.  He lives with his family in northern Illinois.