Gods in the Abyss

Table of Contents

• Foreword to the English Edition
• I. Approach and Encirclement
• II. Language

• • Deutsch und Volk

  • The Sides of the Term “Heathenry”

• III. War as the Centre of Being of the German Logos

• • The Titanomachy and Ragnarök

  • Three Types of Warlike Thinking

  • The Play of the Two Logoi of Europe

  • The War at the Heart of Seyn

• IV. The God of Wonder and Poetry

• • Oðr

  • Hölderlin

  • The Pολιτεία of the Poets: George-Kreis

  • Wisdom, Ecstasy, Death

  • Names

  • War, Dispute, Play

  • The Priest, the Philosopher and Thinking

• V. Being-Towards-Death

• • Death in German Tradition

  • Gods and Death

• VI. The Concealment of the Abyss

• • Engaging Etymology

  • Engaging Semiotics

  • Engaging Representation

  • Resume

• VII. Aλήθεια
• VIII. Nothingness

• • The Metaphysical Problem of Nihil

  • Nihilism

• IX. Götter und Gottheit

• • Meister Eckhart: The Breakthrough to Gottheit

  • Ἕν and Monism in the German Tradition

• X. The Language of the Year: A-I-U and Silence

• • The Existential of Speech (Rede)

• XI. The Language of Scandinavian Dasein

• • Sein and Dasein

  • Ereignis — the Event

• XII. Loki and Prometheus
• XIII. Man and His Structures

• • The Three Men of Johannes Tauler

  • Faust Enlightened

  • The Relation of Man and World

  • The Mood of Boredom

  • Resume

• XIV. The Concealment of Europe

• • The Metaphysics of Concealment

• XV. Wald und Nebel
• XVI. Resume: the Last Horizon

• • Or Death?

  • The Last God

• Literature