Description
Book SynopsisThroughout his long and controversial career, Martin Heidegger developed a substantial contribution to the phenomenology of religion. This book examines the key concepts and developmental phases that characterized Heidegger's work. It reveals Heidegger as a realist through careful readings of his views on religious attitudes and activities.
Trade Review"[This book] will be useful for those interested in the philosophy of religion, or in the philosophy of Heidegger, or in criticism of the culture of modernity." —Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
Introduction
1. Religion and Cultural Criticism
The Conceptual Framework for Heidegger's Cultural Criticism
Modernity and Subjectivism
Modernity and Theology
Philosophical Voices of Modernity: Neo-Kantianism and Nietzsche
Anti-Realism and Religion
2. Heidegger's Early Phenomenology of Religion
Fundamental Themes
Being-in-the-world
The "Grace-Character" of Religious Life
The "Givenness" or "Objecthood" of God
Influences
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Realism and Phenomenological Method
Edmund Husserl
Adolf Reinach
Heidegger's Earliest Sketches of a Phenomenology of Religion
Winter Semester 19201921: Heidegger's Lectures on Pauline Christianity
Summer Semester 1921: Heidegger's Lectures on Augustine
3. Heidegger's Later Phenomenology of Religion
New Elements, Persisting Project
The Concept of "The Holy"
Phenomenology of Greek Religion
The "Gods"
Religion and "Being-in-the-World" in Heidegger's Later Works
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
