There is a suggestion somewhere or other that Heidegger saw himself, via
_Being and Time_, as the new Luther. The notions of 'attestation', the
fall, nullity, and Dasein's guilty conscience are there to be read
theologically or otherwize, especially as the text is at least in part
coming out of his engagement at Marburg with the theology faculty.
Was this a strange kind of Jesuit protestantism perhaps, but then haven't
those Jesuits always been heretics if not atheists? And the question of
(atheist?) negative theology is interesting. Derrida's book _On the Name_
attempts to deal (in his painfully elliptical style) with the question of
Heidegger, god and the nothing. Negative theology becomes a negotiation of
faith and its affirmation as a mystical 'not'.
There's the relation to Meister Eckhart's Gelassenheit, as well as
Holderlin's pantheon. Of all his 'onto-theo-logical' influences, Holderlin
and Eckhart must rank highly. So is Heidegger a christian or pagan or
atheist, or does atheism also require a leap of faith of its own? Whatever,
he seems to negotiate the question of god rather obliquely, but then his
career starts with the Kantian distinction between transcendent and
transcendental thinking. The nature of god will always have been something
other than an a priori investigation of empirical experience.
Malcolm
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_Being and Time_, as the new Luther. The notions of 'attestation', the
fall, nullity, and Dasein's guilty conscience are there to be read
theologically or otherwize, especially as the text is at least in part
coming out of his engagement at Marburg with the theology faculty.
Was this a strange kind of Jesuit protestantism perhaps, but then haven't
those Jesuits always been heretics if not atheists? And the question of
(atheist?) negative theology is interesting. Derrida's book _On the Name_
attempts to deal (in his painfully elliptical style) with the question of
Heidegger, god and the nothing. Negative theology becomes a negotiation of
faith and its affirmation as a mystical 'not'.
There's the relation to Meister Eckhart's Gelassenheit, as well as
Holderlin's pantheon. Of all his 'onto-theo-logical' influences, Holderlin
and Eckhart must rank highly. So is Heidegger a christian or pagan or
atheist, or does atheism also require a leap of faith of its own? Whatever,
he seems to negotiate the question of god rather obliquely, but then his
career starts with the Kantian distinction between transcendent and
transcendental thinking. The nature of god will always have been something
other than an a priori investigation of empirical experience.
Malcolm
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