Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religion

Benjamin D. Crowe

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Heidegger's interpretation of religion in the context of his critique of modernity

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.

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
Introduction
1. Religion and Cultural Criticism
The Conceptual Framework for Heidegger's Cultural Criticism
Modernity and Subjectivism
Modernity and Theology
Philosophical Voices of Modernity: Neo-Kantianism and Nietzsche
Anti-Realism and Religion
2. Heidegger's Early Phenomenology of Religion
Fundamental Themes
Being-in-the-world
The "Grace-Character" of Religious Life
The "Givenness" or "Objecthood" of God
Influences
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Realism and Phenomenological Method
Edmund Husserl
Adolf Reinach
Heidegger's Earliest Sketches of a Phenomenology of Religion
Winter Semester 1920–1921: Heidegger's Lectures on Pauline Christianity
Summer Semester 1921: Heidegger's Lectures on Augustine
3. Heidegger's Later Phenomenology of Religion
New Elements, Persisting Project
The Concept of "The Holy"
Phenomenology of Greek Religion
The "Gods"
Religion and "Being-in-the-World" in Heidegger's Later Works
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Épistémologie
• Philosophie de l'esprit
• Philosophie de la religion
• Movements
• Religious
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Phenomenology
• Philosophy of religion
• Religion
• Continental

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 21 novembre 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253027801
• Langue: English

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Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religion
Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion Merold Westphal, general editor
Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Religion
Realism and Cultural Criticism
Benjamin D. Crowe
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Heidegger’s phenomenology of religion : realism and cultural criticism / Benjamin D. Crowe. p. cm.—(Indiana series in the philosophy of religion)
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For Kristin
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
Introduction
1. Religion and Cultural Criticism

The Conceptual Framework for Heidegger’s Cultural Criticism
Modernity and Subjectivism
Modernity and Theology
Philosophical Voices of Modernity: Neo-Kantianism and Nietzsche
Anti-Realism and Religion
2. Heidegger’s Early Phenomenology of Religion

Fundamental Themes
Being-in-the-world
The “Grace-Character” of Religious Life
The “Givenness” or “Objecthood” of God
Influences
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Realism and Phenomenological Method
Edmund Husserl
Adolf Reinach
Heidegger’s Earliest Sketches of a Phenomenology of Religion
Winter Semester 1920–1921: Heidegger’s Lectures on Pauline Christianity
Summer Semester 1921: Heidegger’s Lectures on Augustine
3. Heidegger’s Later Phenomenology of Religion

New Elements, Persisting Project
The Concept of “The Holy”
Phenomenology of Greek Religion
The “Gods”
Religion and “Being-in-the-World” in Heidegger’s Later Works
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
This book has benefited from the insights and inputs of many people. I wouldlike to acknowledge in particular Professor Iain D. Thomson (University ofNew Mexico), whose own work provided a paradigm and a stimulus for my own,and with whom I have shared many fruitful conversations both in person andthrough e-mail. I would also like to thank Professor Mark A. Wrathall (BrighamYoung University) for sharing his own thoughts on Heidegger’s “gods” withme during the formative stages of this book. Acknowledgment is also due toProfessor Elijah Millgram (University of Utah), who provided me with usefulcriticisms and comments during the final stages of my work. Thanks are owedto Professor Charles B. Guignon (University of South Florida), and to ProfessorSteven G. Crowell (Rice University), for comments on an earlier paper onHeidegger and “Baden” Neo-Kantianism, which substantially helped in shapingthe present work. I must extend my sincere gratitude to Professor MeroldWestphal (Fordham University) and Professor Robert J. Dostal (Bryn MawrCollege) for carefully reviewing earlier manuscripts and providing invaluablecriticism and advice. Finally, thanks to Dee Mortensen and Laura MacLeodat Indiana University Press for their professionalism and advice.
During the many months of reading and writing, my wife, Kristin, gaveme continual support and not a little guidance as I struggled to formulate myargument and to understand Heidegger’s texts. In a very real sense, she madeit possible for me to complete this project.
Abbreviations of Works by Heidegger
The following lists abbreviations of works cited in parentheses in the bodyof the text. The references are given to the original-language version and,where applicable, to the corresponding English translation. These two referencesare separated by a slash.

G3 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 3: Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1991) / RichardTaft, trans., Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, 5th ed.,enl. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,1997).
G4 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 4: Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981) / Keith Hoeller,trans., Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry (Amherst, New York:Humanity, 2000).
G5 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 5: Holzvege (Frankfurt am Main: VittorioKlostermann, 1977) / Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes, eds.and trans., Off the Beaten Track (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002).
G7 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 7: Vorträge und Aufsätze (Frankfurt amMain: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000).
G9 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 9: Wegmarken (Frankfurt am Main: VittorioKlostermann, 1976) / William McNeill, ed., Pathmarks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
G15 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 15: Vier Seminare (Frankfurt am Main:Vittorio Klostermann, 1986) / Andrew Mitchell and FrançoisRaffoul, trans., Four Seminars (Bloomington and Indianapolis:Indiana University Press, 2003). (Partial translation of the precedingvolume.)
G16 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 16: Reden und andere Zeugnisse eines Lebensweges (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000).
G20 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 20: Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1979) / Theodore Kisiel, trans., History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1985).
G26 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 26: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978) / Michael Heim, trans., The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1984).
G29–30 Gesamtausgabe, vols. 29/30: Die Grundbegriff der Metaphysik. Welt—Endlichkeit—Einsamkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983) / William McNeill and Nicholas Walker, trans., The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude ( Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995).
G39 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 39: Hölderlins Hymnen »Germanien« und »Der Rhein« (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1980).
G40 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 40: Einführung in die Metaphysik (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983) / Gregory Fried and Richard Polt, trans., Introduction to Metaphysics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
G46 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 46: Zur Auslegung von Nietzsches II. Unzeitgemä ß iger Betrachtung »Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben« (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2003). Freiburg: Winter Semester 1938–1939.
G48 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 48: Nietzsche: Der Europäische Nihilismus (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1986). Freiburg: Second Trimester 1940.
G50 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 50: 1. Nietzsches Metaphysik. 2. Einleitung in die Philosophie: Denken und Dichten (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1990). Freiburg: Winter Semester 1941–1942 (not held), Winter Semester 1944–1945.
G51 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 51: Grundbegriffe (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981) / Gary E. Aylesworth, trans., Basic Concepts (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993). Freiburg: Winter Semester 1941.
G52 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 52: Hölderlins Hymne »Andenken« (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1982). Freiburg: Winter Semester 1941–1942.
G53 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 53: Hölderlins Hymne »Der Ister« (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1984) / William McNeill and Julia Davis, trans., Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister” (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996). Freiburg: Summer Semester 1942.
G54 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 54: Parmenides (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1982) / André Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz, trans., Parmenides (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992). Freiburg: Winter Semester 1942–1943.
G56–57 Gesamtausgabe, vols. 56/57: Zur Bestimmung der Philosophie (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1987) / Ted Sadler, trans., Towards the Definition of Philosophy (London: Athlone, 2000).
G58 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 58: Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klosterman, 1993).
G59 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 59: Phänomenologie der Anschauung und des Ausdrucks. Theorie der philosophischen Begriffsbildung (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1993).
G60 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 60: Phänomenologie des religiösen Lebens (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1995) / Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, trans., The Phenomenology of Religious Life (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004).
G61 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 61: Phänomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles. Einführung in die phänomenologische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1985) / Richard Rojcewicz, trans., Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle: Inititation into Phenomenological Research (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001).
G63 Gesamtausgabe, vol. 63: Ontologie (Hermeneutik der Faktizität ) (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1988) / John Van Buren, trans., Ontology—The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999).
G65 Gesamtausgab