Heidegger on Religion
Heidegger on Religion by Benjamin D. Crowe, published by Cambridge University Press on January 16, 2025, is a concise exploration of the religious dimensions in the thought of Martin Heidegger. This 74-page work delves into three significant phases of Heidegger’s engagement with religion, examining how his ideas influenced both his contemporaries and successors. The text presents an analysis of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul, his reflections during the late 1930s, and his postwar discussions on the divine, highlighting the evolution of his philosophical inquiries.
Readers will find a thorough examination of how Heidegger perceives religion as a complex interplay of life and possibility. The book emphasizes the necessity of suspending conventional approaches to understanding religion, urging a reconsideration of established classifications and definitions. By focusing on the indeterminate aspects of religious thought, Crowe illustrates Heidegger’s transformative approach to philosophy, politics, and social sciences. This edition, written in English, invites readers to engage with the intricate relationship between religion and existential inquiry as articulated by one of the 20th century’s most influential philosophers.
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Throughout his career, Heidegger explored the religious sides of life in ways that had far-reaching impacts on the thought of his contemporaries and successors. This Element examines three important stops along Heidegger’s ways of thinking about religion as the risky performance of life in new spaces of possibility. Section 1 examines Heidegger’s 1920-1921 lectures on Paul, while Section 2 turns to the darker period of the late 1930s, exploring how Heidegger reconfigures religion in the context of his “new inception” of thought beyond metaphysics. Finally, Section 3 takes up Heidegger’s challenging discussions of the divine in several postwar addresses and essays. In each case, Heidegger argues that we must suspend, bracket, or rescind from our tendencies to order, classify, define, and explain things in order to carry out a venture into a situation of indeterminacy and thereby recast religion in a new light.
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