Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion

by Crowe, Benjamin D.

• ISBN13: 9780253219398
• ISBN10: 0253219396
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-30
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Throughout his long and controversial career, Martin Heidegger developed a substantial contribution to the phenomenology of religion. In Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion, Benjamin D. Crowe examines the key concepts and developmental phases that characterized Heidegger's work. Crowe shows that Heidegger's account of the meaning and structure of religious life belongs to his larger project of exposing and criticizing the fundamental assumptions of late modern culture. He reveals Heidegger as a realist through careful readings of his views on religious attitudes and activities. Crowe challenges interpretations of Heidegger's early efforts in the phenomenology of religion and later writings on religion, including discussions of Greek religion and Hölderlin's poetry. This book is sure to spark discussion and debate as Heidegger's work in religion and the philosophy of religion becomes increasingly important to scholars and beyond.

Author Biography

Benjamin D. Crowe teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Utah. He is author of Heidegger's Religious Origins (IUP, 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Religion and Cultural Criticism	p. 18
The Conceptual Framework for Heidegger's Cultural Criticism	p. 20
Modernity and Subjectivism	p. 29
Modernity and Theology	p. 36
Philosophical Voices of Modernity: Neo-Kantianism and Nietzsche	p. 42
Anti-Realism and Religion	p. 49
Heidegger's Early Phenomenology of Religion	p. 57
Fundamental Themes	p. 58
Being-in-the-world	p. 63
The "Grace-Character" of Religious Life	p. 66
The "Givenness" or "Objecthood" of God	p. 67
Influences	p. 67
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Realism and Phenomenological Method	p. 67
Edmund Husserl	p. 70
Adolf Reinach	p. 72
Heidegger's Earliest Sketches of a Phenomenology of Religion	p. 73
Winter Semester 1920-1921: Heidegger's Lectures on Pauline Christianity	p. 80
Summer Semester 1921: Heidegger's Lectures on Augustine	p. 91
Heidegger's Later Phenomenology of Religion	p. 97
New Elements, Persisting Project	p. 98
The Concept of "The Holy"	p. 105
Phenomenology of Greek Religion	p. 116
The "Gods"	p. 122
Religion and "Being-in-the-World" in Heidegger's Later Works	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 135
Bibliography	p. 143
Index	p. 149
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