The Philosophy of Redemption

<p>Philipp Mainländer set down in his <em>Philosophy of Redemption</em> an ambitious philosophical vision. He claimed not only to confirm the teachings of Buddhism and Christianity but also to reconcile religion with science and put atheism on a scientific foundation. All this he integrates with a cosmology that reads the universe as the emanation of a primordial event which he construes as God's self-destruction. The universe is therefore the disintegrating relic of a divinity a discordant unity of individual beings egoistic manifestations of a will to death all striving for absolute annihilation. Mainländer's bleak but rapturous prognosis is here published in English for the first time.</p><p><br></p><p>This translation of the first volume does not include the appendix.</p>