Pain and insomnia, the honour of animals, God's thinking according to Kant's criticism, faith and science, mysticism and politics, apocalyptic visions ("New City of God"), Job's rebellion against God and the "active life" - this is what the lectures collected here are about in philosophical, theological and political perspectives and in dialogue with Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Lévinas and Dag Hammarskjöld. This book has been translated with Artificial Intelligence.