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The book delves into the interpretations of Saint Paul's concept of faith (pistis) by philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Martin Heidegger, highlighting their thematic connections. Each thinker offers a unique perspective on how pistis is enacted and expressed within the context of Paul's life. Antonio Cimino examines the philosophical motivations driving these interpretations, providing insights into why these prominent thinkers engage with Pauline faith and its implications in their broader philosophical frameworks.

Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious motives is deeply ambiguous since new forms of metaphysical and religious experience re-emerge in his philosophical works. Heidegger shares this ambiguous relation to the notions of faith and religion with authors such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein whose works are also marked by a critique of metaphysics and by a characteristic rethinking of the role of faith and religion. In fact, all three still remain, among other things, reference points for contemporary philosophical debates relating to the phenomenon of religion and faith. Rethinking Faith explores how the phenomena of religion and faith are present in the works of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein, and how these phenomena are brought into play in their discussion of the classical metaphysical motives they criticize.