Heidegger Reader of Augustine: Towards a Hermeneutics of Facticity, Through the Experience of Religious Life
Abstract
The aim of this article is to show how the young Heidegger, in his summer course of 1921, discovers in Augustine, while interpreting Book X of the Confessions, a proto-phenomenologist and hermeneuticist of the factical life (or facticity). We will show that Augustine’s description of Christian religious life offers Heidegger concrete material for the elaboration of his own indicative-formal interpretation of existence, itself subordinated to a strict “methodological atheism”.
Keywords: Angst, Augustine, Authenticity, Existentials, Formal Indication
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