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Time and Transcendence - Secular History, the Catholic Reaction and the Rediscovery of the Future (Hardcover)
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Time and Transcendence - Secular History, the Catholic Reaction and the Rediscovery of the Future (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, v. 1
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"Time and Transcendence" provides a new theory of secularization in
the Catholic context, a new interpretation of the origins of modern
historical science, and a new reading of Heidegger's theories of
time and history. The author shows how a secular sense of the past
evolved in early modern French memoirs. Memoirs uncovered a level
of personal experience that was then applied as an intuitive
framework for the study of history. Modern history's scientific
study of sources is embedded in the imaginative sense of a personal
past. 19th-century French Traditionalists countered this threat of
a secular past by expanding the concept of tradition to include all
of history. Neoscholasticism then canonized philosophy as Catholic
tradition, turning the history of philosophy against secular
culture. Heidegger's thinking developed in the contexts of both
this Catholic counterattack and the "fin-de-siecle" disillusion
with secular history. Against "fin-de-siecle" notions of memory as
a better way of penetrating the past, Heidegger recast history as
future-oriented action. Rejecting both secular culture and
religious tradition, he used history as a tool for secularizing
religious experiences that secular culture had ignored, such as
grace, mystical experience, and death. This book shows that while
religion can turn a self-conscious secular culture against itself,
ultimately the religious critique of secular culture can also be
turned against religion.
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