Heidegger's eschatology : theological horizons in Martin Heidegger's early work /
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 Heide...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Oxford theology and religion monographs.
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| 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 endeavor, 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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| Physical Description: | x, 181 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199680511 0199680515 |