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Heidegger's Eschatology - Theological Horizons in Martin Heidegger's Early Work (Paperback)
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Heidegger's Eschatology - Theological Horizons in Martin Heidegger's Early Work (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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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. His
synthesis of such trends within a phenomenological framework
(elaborated primarily via readings of Paul and Augustine in his
lecture courses of 1921-2) led Heidegger to postulate an
existential sense of eschatological unrest as the central
characteristic of authentic Christian existence. His description of
this expectant restlessness, however, was now inescapably at odds
with its Christian sources, since Heidegger's commitment to a
phenomenological description of the human situation led him to
abstract the 'existential' experience of expectation from its
traditional object: the 'blessed hope' for the Kingdom of God.
Christian hope thus for Heidegger no longer constitutes, but rather
negates 'eschatological' unrest, because such hope projects an end
to that unrest, and thus to authentic existence itself. Against the
Christian vision, Heidegger therefore develops a systematic
'eschatology without eschaton', paradigmatically expressed as
'being-unto-death'. Judith Wolfe tells the story of his
re-conception of eschatology, using a wealth of primary and newly
available original-language sources, and offering in-depth analysis
of Heidegger's relationship to theological tradition and the
theology of his time.
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