Heidegger as a Colonial Thinker: Puritanism and Germany’s Errand into the Wilderness
In the turbulent 1930s, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture on “Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language.” Upon close inspection, this text expounds a form of covenantal thinking guided by the Puritan theme of an errand into the wilderness. The proffered analysis shows how Heidegger invo...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Sage
2023
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Critical research on religion
Année: 2023, Volume: 11, Numéro: 2, Pages: 150-170 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
/ Colonisation
/ Kulturnation
/ Nationalisme
/ Racisme
/ Puritanisme
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AD Sociologie des religions KBB Espace germanophone ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
eschatological racism
B Heidegger B Puritanism B Colonialism B Cultural Nationalism |
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| Résumé: | In the turbulent 1930s, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture on “Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language.” Upon close inspection, this text expounds a form of covenantal thinking guided by the Puritan theme of an errand into the wilderness. The proffered analysis shows how Heidegger invokes a poetic conception of colony to reconfigure Germany’s self-image as a culture nation in search of a “new past.” What can be gleaned from this account is a central but neglected link between Heidegger’s thought and colonial discourse, in uneasy proximity to a special form of eschatological racism which divides humanity into spiritual classes marked by varying degrees of fitness for salvation. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/20503032231174206 |