Revision of author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2010 under title: Heidegger's secular eschatology : eschatological thought in Martin Heidegger's early work, 1909-1929 and beyond. Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-177) and index.
Contents:
Heidegger's religious provenance : Kulturkampf and the modernist crisis -- The developing critique of 'scholasticism,' 1911-15 -- Eschatological affliction as the centre of a phenomenology of religion, 1916-21 -- From theology to philosophy I : the problem of sin -- From theology to philosophy II : Heidegger and dialectical theology -- Death and authenticity -- Conclusion: Theological responses.
Summary:
Heidegger's Eschatology' is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method. The book centres on Heidegger's developing commitment to an eschatological vision, derived from theological sources but reshaped into a central resource for the development of an atheistic phenomenological account of human existence. This vision originated in Heidegger's attempt, in the late 1910s, to formulate a phenomenology of religious life that would take seriously the inherent temporality of human existence. In this endeavour, Heidegger turned to two trends in Protestant scholarship: the discovery of eschatology as a central preoccupation of the Early Church by A. Schweitzer and the 'History of Doctrine' School, and the 'existential' eschatology of Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen, indebted to Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Franz Overbeck.
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