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Martin Heidegger
The Phenomenology of Religious Life
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION
2. AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM
3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM
Translated by
Matthias Fritsch
and
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
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Published in German as Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe , volume 60: Phänomenologie des religiösen Lebens , edited by Matthias Jung, Thomas Regehly, and Claudius Strube
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. [Phänomenologie des religiösen Lebens. English] The phenomenology of religious life / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei. p. cm.—(Studies in Continental thought) ISBN 0-253-34248-1 (cloth : alk paper) 1. Religion—Philosophy. 2. Phenomenology. I. Title. II. Series. B3279.H46 2004 200—dc22 2003015581
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Contents
Translators' Foreword
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION Winter Semester 1920–21
PART ONE Methodological Introduction Philosophy, Factical Life Experience, and the Phenomenology of Religion
Chapter One The Formation of Philosophical Concepts and Factical Life Experience
§ 1. The Peculiarity of Philosophical Concepts
§ 2. On the Title of the Lecture Course
§ 3. Factical Life Experience as the Point of Departure
§ 4. Taking-Cognizance-of
Chapter Two Current Tendencies of the Philosophy of Religion
§ 5. Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religion
a) Psychology
b) Epistemology
c) Philosophy of History
d) Metaphysics
§ 6. Critical Observations
Chapter Three The Phenomenon of the Historical
§ 7. The Historical as Core Phenomenon
a) “Historical Thinking”
b) The Concept of the Historical
c) The Historical in Factical Life Experience
§ 8. The Struggle of Life against the Historical
a) The Platonic Way
b) Radical Self-Extradition
c) Compromise between the Two Positions
§ 9. Tendencies-to-Secure
a) The Relation of the Tendency-to-Secure
b) The Sense of the Historical Itself
c) Does the Securing Suffice?
§ 10. The Concern of Factical Dasein
Chapter Four Formalization and Formal Indication
§ 11. The General Sense of “Historical”
§ 12. Generalization and Formalization
§ 13. The “Formal Indication”
PART TWO Phenomenological Explication of Concrete Religious Phenomena in Connection with the Letters of Paul
Chapter One Phenomenological Interpretation of the Letters to the Galatians
§ 14. Introduction
§ 15. Some Remarks on the Text
§ 16. The Fundamental Posture of Paul
Chapter Two Task and Object of the Philosophy of Religion
§ 17. Phenomenological Understanding
§ 18. Phenomenology of Religion and the History of Religion
§ 19. Basic Determinations of Primordial Christian Religiosity
§ 20. The Phenomenon of Proclamation
§ 21. Foreconceptions of the Study
§ 22. The Schema of Phenomenological Explication
Chapter Three Phenomenological Explication of the First Letter to the Thessalonians
§ 23. Methodological Difficulties
§ 24. The “Situation”
§ 25. The “Having-Become” of the Thessalonians
§ 26. The Expectation of the Parousia
Chapter Four The Second Letter to the Thessalonians
§ 27. Anticipation of the Parousia in the Second Letter to the Thessalonians
§ 28. The Proclamation of the Antichrist
§ 29. Dogma and the Complex of Enactment
Chapter Five Characteristics of Early Christian Life Experience
§ 30. Factical Life Experience and Proclamation
§ 31. The Relational Sense of Primordial Christian Religiosity
§ 32. Christian Facticity as Enactment
§ 33. The Complex of Enactment as “Knowledge”
APPENDIX
Notes and Sketches on the Lecture
Letter to the Galatians [on § 16]
Religious Experience and Explication [on § 17]
Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (I) [on §§ 18 and 19]
Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (II) [on §§ 20 and 21]
Methodological Considerations regarding Paul (III) [on § 22]
The Hermeneutical Foreconceptions [on § 22]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (I) (I Thess.) [on §§ 23–26]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (II) (I Thess.) [on §§ 23–26]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (III) (I Thess.) [on §§ 23–26]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (IV) [on §§ 23–26]
Phenomenology of Pauline Proclamation (V) [on §§ 23–26]
Enactmental-Historical Understanding [on § 24]
Eschatology I (I Thess.) [on § 26]
Eschatology II (I Thess.) [on § 26]
Eschatology III (II Thess.) [on §§ 27 and 28]
Eschatology IV (II Thess.) [on §§ 28 and 29]
 
AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM Summer Semester 1921
INTRODUCTORY PART Interpretations of Augustine
§ 1. Ernst Troeltsch's Interpretation of Augustine
§ 2. Adolf von Harnack's Interpretation of Augustine
§ 3. Wilhelm Dilthey's Interpretation of Augustine
§ 4. The Problem of Historical Objectivity
§ 5. A Discussion of the Three Interpretations of Augustine according to Their Sense of Access
§ 6. A Discussion of the Interpretations of Augustine according to Their Motivational Basis for the Starting Point and the Enactment of Access
a) The Motivational Centers of the Three Interpretations
b) Demarcation from Object-Historical Studies
c) Demarcation from Historical-Typological Studies
MAIN PART Phenomenological Interpretation of Confessions; Book X
§ 7. Preparations for the Interpretation
a) Augustine's Retractions of the Confessions
b) The Grouping of the Chapters
§ 8. The Introduction to Book X. Chapters 1–7
a) The Motif of confiteri before God and the People
b) Knowledge of Oneself
c) The Objecthood of God
d) The Essence of the Soul
§ 9. The memoria . Chapters 8–19
a) Astonishment at memoria
b) Sensuous Objects
c) Nonsensuous Objects
d) The discere and Theoretical Acts
e) The Affects and Their Manner of Givenness
f) Ipse mihi occurro
g) The Aporia regarding oblivio
h) What Does It Mean to Search?
§ 10. Of the beata vita . Chapters 20–23
a) The How of Having beata vita
b) The gaudium de veritate
c) Veritas in the Direction of Falling
§ 11. The How of Questioning and Hearing. Chapters 24–27
§ 12. The curare (Being Concerned) as the Basic Character of Factical Life. Chapters 28 and 29
a) The Dispersion of Life
b) The Conflict of Life
§ 13. The First Form of tentatio: concupiscentia carnis . Chapters 30–34
a) The Three Directions of the Possibility of Defluxion
b) The Problem of the “I am”
c) Voluptas
d) Illecebra odorum
e) Voluptas aurium
f) Voluptas oculorum
g) Operatores et sectatores pulchritudinum exteriorum
§ 14. The Second Form of tentatio: concupiscentia oculorum . Chapter 35
a) Videre in carne and videre per carnem
b) The Curious Looking-about-Oneself in the World
§ 15. The Third Form of tentatio: ambitio saeculi . Chapters 36–38
a) A Comparison of the First Two Forms of Temptation
b) Timeri velle and amari velle
c) Amor laudis
d) The Genuine Direction of placere
§ 16. Self-importance. Chapter 39
§ 17. Molestia —the Facticity of Life
a) The How of the Being of Life
b) Molestia —the Endangerment of Having-of-Oneself
APPENDIX I
Notes and Sketches for the Lecture Course
Augustine, “Confessiones”—“confiteri,” “interpretari” [on § 7 b]
On the Destruction of Confessiones X [on § 7 b]
Enactmental Complex of the Question [on § 8 b]
Tentatio [on § 12 a]
[ Oneri mihi sum ] [on § 12 a]
[on § 13 a]
Tentatio [on § 13 a, b]
The Phenomenon of tentatio [on § 13 c]
Light [on § 13 f]
Deus lux [on § 13 g]
Tentatio: in carne—per carnem [on § 14 a]
[A Comparison of the Three Forms of tentatio ] [on § 15 a]
Axiologization [on § 15 b–d]
[ Agnoscere ordinem ] [on § 15 c]
[on § 15 c]
[ Four Groups of Problems ]
Sin
Axiologization [on § 17]
[ Molestia ] [on § 17]
[ Exploratio ]
[Anxiety]
[The Counter-Expected, the Temptation, the Appeal]
On the Destruction of Plotinus
APPENDIX II
Supplements from the Notes of Oskar Becker
1. Continentia [Supplement to § 12 a]
2. Uti and frui [Supplement to § 12 b]
3. Tentatio [Supplement following § 12 b]
4. The confiteri and the Concept