Heidegger's Confessions : The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond - Ryan Coyne

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Heidegger's Confessions

The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond

By: Ryan Coyne

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Paperback | 27 July 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger's Confessions, Ryan Coyne isolates a crucially important player in this story: Saint Augustine. Uncovering the significance of Saint Augustine in Heidegger's philosophy, he details the complex and conflicted ways in which Heidegger paradoxically sought to define himself against the Christian tradition while at the same time making use of its resources.

Coyne first examines the role of Augustine in Heidegger's early period and the development of his magnum opus, Being and Time. He then goes on to show that Heidegger owed an abiding debt to Augustine even following his own rise as a secular philosopher, tracing his early encounters with theological texts through to his late thoughts and writings. Bringing a fresh and unexpected perspective to bear on Heidegger's profoundly influential critique of modern metaphysics, Coyne traces a larger lineage between religious and theological discourse and continental philosophy.

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"Anyone tempted to take Heidegger's occasional references to Augustine as marginal asides, worthy of curiosity or perhaps biographical but not philosophical interest should read Ryan Coyne's Heidegger's Confessions. Coyne's examination of the Heideggerian texts and their histories makes clear that a confrontation with Augustine is indispensable to Heidegger's elaboration of the most important questions, issues, and phenomena the master treated. . . . What is perhaps most impressive about Heidegger's Confessions is the erudition and philological care Coyne exercises in documenting the presence of Augustine in the Heideggerian corpus. Coyne's analyses are meticulous, his mastery of the texts and their histories compelling. These are indispensable virtues in the reading of a corpus as dense and complicated as Heidegger's."-- "Continental Philosophy Review"
"Coyne's new study of Heidegger's extended, complex, and fluctuating relation to Augustine is an excellent piece of work that proceeds through a series of close critical readings of key texts extending from the early post-World War I lectures on religious life through to the 1957 paper on 'The Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics.' Taking in central elements of Being and Time, the Contributions to Philosophy, the critique of Nietzsche, and the return to the Pre-Socratics, the apparently narrow focus on Augustine is used to develop an overall reading of Heidegger's deeply conflicted relation to religion."-- "Journal of the American Academy of Religion"

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