Heidegger on religion /
Throughout his career, Heidegger explored the religious sides of life in ways that had far-reaching impacts on the thought of his contemporaries and successors. This Element examines three important stops along Heidegger's ways of thinking about religion as the risky performance of life in new...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
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| Summary: | Throughout his career, Heidegger explored the religious sides of life in ways that had far-reaching impacts on the thought of his contemporaries and successors. This Element examines three important stops along Heidegger's ways of thinking about religion as the risky performance of life in new spaces of possibility. Section 1 examines Heidegger's 1920-1921 lectures on Paul, while Section 2 turns to the darker period of the late 1930s, exploring how Heidegger reconfigures religion in the context of his "new inception" of thought beyond metaphysics. Finally, Section 3 takes up Heidegger's challenging discussions of the divine in several postwar addresses and essays. In each case, Heidegger argues that we must suspend, bracket or rescind from our tendencies to order, classify, define and explain things in order to carry out a venture into a situation of indeterminacy and thereby recast religion in a new light. |
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| Physical Description: | 68 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [64]-68). |
| ISBN: | 9781009459785 1009459783 9781009459815 1009459813 |