This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. It features essays that examine why and how current Muslim thinkers refer to Continental philosophy. The contributors put the universality of the hermeneutic order to the test with three different approaches. The first looks at exegetical aspects. It addresses contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged critically or not with main representatives or key concepts of philosophical hermeneutics. The second presents an interpretative analysis. The essays here present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith as well as legal, spiritual, and philosophical corpuses from the Islamicate world. The third looks at different political and critical issues. The clear and sound reference to religion of Islamic thought makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. Is it true, as some contend, that philosophical hermeneutics can help interpret Islamic thought anew? This book reveals how the two philosophies are likely to expand each other's horizons and influence each other's conceptual frameworks. It features revised papers from an International Conference.

This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. It features essays that examine why and how current Muslim thinkers refer to Continental philosophy. The contributors put the universality of the hermeneutic order to the test with three different approaches. The first looks at exegetical aspects. It addresses contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged critically or not with main representatives or key concepts of philosophical hermeneutics. The second presents an interpretative analysis. The essays here present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts such as the Qur’an and the Hadith as well as legal, spiritual, and philosophical corpuses from the Islamicate world. The third looks at different political and critical issues. The clear and sound reference to religion of Islamic thought makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. Is it true, as some contend, that philosophical hermeneutics can help interpret Islamic thought anew? This book reveals how the two philosophies are likely to expand each other’s horizons and influence each other’s conceptual frameworks. It features revised papers from an International Conference.

Cette A(c)tude tente de reconstruire la premiA]re phA(c)nomA(c)nologie de la religion du jeune Heidegger par la (TM)examen du recueil de notes A(c)parses rA(c)digA(c)es entre 1916 et 1919 et intitulA(c) rA(c)trospectivement Les fondements philosophiques de la mystique mA(c)diA(c)vale. Entre sa thA]se da (TM)habilitation et ses premiers cours da (TM)aprA]s-guerre, Heidegger se consacre A la (TM)A(c)criture da (TM)une PhA(c)nomA(c)nologie de la conscience religieuse qui, pour des raisons quelque peu mystA(c)rieuses, restera finalement inachevA(c)e. Si certains de ses A(c)lA(c)ments seront repris et assimilA(c)s dans les cours sur Paul et Augustin des annA(c)es 1920 et 1921, de nombreux autres, concernant des auteurs tels que MaA(R)tre Eckhart, Bernard de Clairvaux, Luther, Schleiermacher ou Adolf Reinach, ou des notions phA(c)nomA(c)nologiques, thA(c)ologiques et religieuses, telles que la prA(c)donation, la foi, la priA]re ou la (TM)a priori religieux, trouvent dans ce texte une thA(c)matisation tout A fait spA(c)cifique, dictA(c)e par une situation biographique et philosophique singuliA]re. Ca (TM)est pour rA(c)pondre A cette dimension hapaxique que ce livre tente un commentaire exhaustif des notes heideggeriennes. Et ca (TM)est A la (TM)occasion de cette lecture suivie que sont apparues les grandes lignes de ce que la (TM)on peut appeler une A hermA(c)neutique thA(c)ologique A censA(c)e guider la phA(c)nomA(c)nologie sur le terrain religieux nouvellement investi et la familiariser avec des phA(c)nomA]nes qui rA(c)sistent en certains endroits A son esprit mA(c)thodique. MalgrA(c) leur caractA]re introductif, les premiA]res recherches de Heidegger tA(c)moignent da (TM)une richesse, da(TM)une profondeur et da (TM)un respect de la vie religieuse inA(c)galA(c)s A ce jour et il na (TM)est pas exagA(c)rA(c) de dire qua (TM)elles devraient servir de prolA(c)gomA]nes A toute phA(c)nomA(c)nologie future de la religion. Ainsi, parallA]lement au travail da (TM)explication, le travail ici prA(c)sentA(c) esquisse en ce domaine quelques chemins possibles en prolongeant certaines descriptions heideggeriennes et en posant les bases da (TM)un nouveau dialogue entre phA(c)nomA(c)nologie, thA(c)ologie et sciences religieuses.

This book seeks to reconstitute the young Heidegger's first phenomenology of religion by analysing a group of notes written between 1916 and 1919 and retrospectively called "The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism." Between his Habilitation thesis and his after war courses, Heidegger devotes himself to writing a phenomenology of religious consciousness which, for some mysterious reasons, will remain unfinished. If some of its aspects are to be found in the 1920-1921 lectures on Paul and Augustine, many others concerning authors such as Eckhart, Bernard of Clairvaux, Schleiermacher or Adolf Reinach and concepts intertwining phenomenology, theology and religion find in the 1916-1919 notes a specific and hapaxic thematization which is closely investigated in this book.

Something appeared throughout the survey that one might called a "theo-logical hermeneutics," not explicitly thought by Heidegger himself but somehow self-revealed through his notes. The task of this singular discipline is to help phenomenology entering into the often rebellious world of religious life. In that manner, theo-logical hermeneutics becomes simultaneously a way ofunderstanding what the young Heidegger meant in his notes and a path toward a renewal of the dialogue between phenomenology, theology and religious sciences.