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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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sage
2023
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Critical research on religion
Jahr: 2023, Band: 11, Heft: 2, Seiten: 150-170 |
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Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
/ Kolonialismus
/ Kulturnation
/ Nationalismus
/ Rassismus
/ Puritanismus
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| IxTheo Notationen: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik KBB Deutsches Sprachgebiet ZC Politik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
eschatological racism
B Heidegger B Puritanism B Colonialism B Cultural Nationalism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/20503032231174206 |