2009-10-30
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Questions on Heidegger and Religion
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Michael WeaverWest Chester University
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I was just wondering if anyone could steer me towards any
pertinent literature on Heidegger and religion/theology or (what I have
discovered some call) his phenomenology of religion. I believe I want
to direct a research paper towards that idea although I am not sure in
what way yet. I thought I had detected some religious or mystic
inclinations in Division I of Being and Time in placing so much importance on the
Being of Dasein (perhaps, his twisted re-interpretation of the soul?)
but, after reading the sections on death (in Being and Time), it seems that that
interpretation may be a little off (considering he dispels any notion
of an afterlife or immortality in his thought). But I can't help but
think a man who was so religious in his upbringing and early academic
years could shake off religious notions completely albeit in a fierce
rejection of them or in an underlying acceptance.
Any thoughts and/or references to materials?
P.S. I am an undergrad senior with only Being and Time and Introduction to Metaphysics "under my belt" without much familiarity with his later thought.
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