Breath-kiss
Philosophical Theology of Loving Encounter
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https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2023.410Keywords:
philosophical theology, breath-kiss, love, philosophy of breath, dualis, Tantra, Franz von Baader, Ludwig Feuerbach, Catherine KellerAbstract
The article deals with the contemplation of the logic of divine love in Buddhist tantras, Christian mysticism, and contemporary Western philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. The basic thesis of the article is that all the aforementioned thematizations of love are connected by the archaic connection of the couple, which was lost with the development of the first layers of existence. The search for this lost unity of the couple is carried out in the first part through the treatment of Tantric writings, followed by Christian mystical writings. Within the framework of the Christian conception of the logic of the couple, we rely on Jakob Böhme and Franz von Baader and their explication of the original couple and breath-kiss. In the second part, we take a step forward in the direction of the philosophy and theology of love of Ludwig Feuerbach and Luce Irigaray. In this part, we also critically reflect on the heteronormative logic of the theology of love. Feuerbach’s and Irigaray’s explication of love leads us to the third part, in which, referring to Catherine Keller, we focus on the possibilities of connecting our philosophy of love with the theory of quantum entanglement. We conclude the paper with a meditation on the proximity of the humanely-divine couple.
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