Heidegger's analysis of Christian Facticity

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

Shahid Beheshti University

10.29252/kj.2021.100818

Abstract

Criticizing theoretical attitudes, early Heidegger insists on the living experience as the fundamental object of philosophy. The analysis of Christian facticity provides an exemplar for the characterization of the facticity which affects Heidegger's project in Being and Time. Emphasizing on entering into the enactment of life as the basis of faith, the Christian life is in contrast to Greek theoretical metaphysics. Entering into such enactment requires the acceptance of the word of God which consists of trusting to what God has said and waiting for Jesus's second coming. Here, there is a different knowledge and experience of temporality which has been lost under the overcoming of metaphysical conceptuality. Heidegger pursues his analysis of Christian facticity through analyzing the letters of St. Paul and the confessions of St. Augustin.

Keywords


Agamben, Giorgio (2008), The Passion of Facticity: Heidegger and the Problem of Love, From Rethinking Facticity, SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Aleksanderavicius, Povilas (2014), Hermeneutics of Heidegger’s Facticity and its Religious Aspects, S‌tudia Philosophiae Chris‌tianae 50 (2014) 1.
Buren, John van (1994), The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King, Indiana University Press
Campbell, Scott M (2012), The Early Heidegger’s Philosophy of Life: Facticity, Being, and Language, Fordham University Press
Crowe, Benjamin D (2006), Heidegger’s Religious Origins: Des‌truction and Authenticity, Indiana University Press
Dreyfus, L. Wrathall (2005), A. A Companion to Heidegger, Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Greisch, Jean (1996), La facticité chrétienne: «Heidegger, lecteur de saint Paul’’, 
Transversalités 60
Heidegger, Martin (1999), Ontology: Hermeneutics of Facticity (GA 63), Trans John van Buren, Indiana University Press
Heidegger, Martin (2010), Phenomenology of Religious Life (GA 60), Trans Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Indiana University Press
Jan-Arrien, Sophie (2013), Faith’s Knowledge, On Heidegger’s Reading of Saint Paul, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 3: 30–49
Jan-Arrien, Sophie (2017), Précis de L’inquiétude de la pensée, Les nouvaux horizons du féminisme dans la philosophie francophone, Volume 44, Numéro 2, automne 2017
Kisiel, Theodore (1993), The Genesis of Heidegger’s Being and Time, University of California Press
Kisiel, Theodore. Buren, Jan van (1994), Reading Heidegger from the S‌tart, Essays in His Earlies‌t Thought, S‌tate University of New York Press
Murchadha, Felix O (2013), The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger, Bloomsbury S‌tudies in Continental Philosophy