{"id":2307,"date":"2025-04-06T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erenyesilyurt.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/only-a-god-can-save-us-giorgi-agamben\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:10:12","slug":"only-a-god-can-save-us-giorgi-agamben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erenyesilyurt.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/only-a-god-can-save-us-giorgi-agamben\/","title":{"rendered":"Only a God can save us -Giorgi Agamben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The abrupt statement Heidegger made in his 1976 Der Spiegel<\/em> interview\u2014\u201cOnly a God can save us\u201d\u2014has always caused a stir. To understand it properly, we must first place it back in its context. Heidegger had just been speaking of the planetary dominance of technology, which nothing and no one seems capable of governing. Philosophy and the other spiritual powers\u2014poetry, religion, the arts, politics\u2014have lost the ability to jolt or guide the life of Western peoples. From here comes the bitter diagnosis that they \u201ccannot bring about any immediate change to the current state of the world,\u201d and the inevitable conclusion that \u201conly a God can save us.\u201d Immediately afterward, Heidegger clarifies that this is anything but a millenarian prophecy; we must, he says, prepare ourselves not only \u201cfor the appearance of a God\u201d but also\u2014and perhaps especially\u2014\u201cfor the absence of a God in his decline, for the fact that we may go under before an absent God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes without saying that Heidegger\u2019s diagnosis has lost none of its relevance today; on the contrary, if anything, it has become even more irrefutable and true. Humanity has given up on the decisive rank of spiritual questions and has created a special sphere in which to confine them: culture. Art, poetry, philosophy, and the other spiritual powers\u2014when they are not simply extinguished and worn out\u2014are confined to museums and cultural institutions of every kind, where they survive as entertainments or diversions from the boredom of existence (and often no less boring in themselves).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How, then, are we to understand the philosopher\u2019s bitter verdict? In what sense is it that \u201conly a God can save us\u201d? For nearly two centuries\u2014since Hegel and Nietzsche declared His death\u2014the West has lost its God. But what we have lost is only a god to whom we can give a name and an identity. The death of God is, in truth, the loss of the divine names (\u201cthe divine names are missing,\u201d H\u00f6lderlin lamented). Beyond names lies the most important thing: the divine itself. As long as we are capable of perceiving a flower, a face, a bird, a gesture, or a blade of grass as divine, we can do without a God we are able to name. The divine is enough for us; the adjective matters more than the noun. Not \u201ca God,\u201d but rather \u201conly the divine can save us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 March 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: https:\/\/www.quodlibet.it\/giorgio-agamben-solo-un-dio-ci-pu-lvare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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