Karl Löwith’s Secularization Thesis and the Jewish Reception of Heidegger

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Karl Löwith’s Secularization Thesis and the Jewish Reception of Heidegger

03 Jun 2021-Religion (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)-Vol. 12, Iss: 6, pp 411

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that while modern philosophical notions present themselves as secular, they are in fact secularized, that is, they preserve features of the theological background they repress and remain determined by it.

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About: This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-06-03 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Secularization & German philosophy.

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Being and Time

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Ronald W. Hepburn, Martin Heidegger, John Macquarrie, Edward Robinson

01 Jan 1927

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an interpretation of Dasein in terms of temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being.

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Abstract: Translators' Preface. Author's Preface to the Seventh German Edition. Introduction. Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being. 1. The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being. 2. The Twofold Task of Working out the Question of Being. Method and Design of our Investigation. Part I:. The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being. 3. Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein. Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein. Being-in-the-World in General as the Basic State of Dasein. The Worldhood of the World. Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being-One's-Self. The 'they'. Being-in as Such. Care as the Being of Dasein. 4. Dasein and Temporality. Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death. Dasein's Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness. Dasein's Authentic Potentiality-for-Being-a-Whole, and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care. Temporality and Everydayness. Temporality and Historicality. Temporality and Within-Time-Ness as the Source of the Ordinary Conception of Time. Author's Notes. Glossary of German Terms. Index.

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"Karl Löwith’s Secularization Thesis..." refers background in this paper

...Indeed, Being and Time offered a penetrating and original transcendental analysis of Dasein’s being and what Heidegger called ‘being in the world’ [In-der-Welt-Sein], introducing a myriad of new ontological [Existential] preconditions and possibilities of Dasein’s ontic [Existentiell] existence....
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...The same is true, Löwith affirmed, with respect to other formalized ontological categories in Being and Time: the “entanglement of death, guilt, and conscience in an existence responsible only to itself means, it is true, an eradication of these concepts from their Christian sphere of origin, but on this very account they are still related to it” (ibid, p. 68)....
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...Finitude and mortality are not something that come at the end of one’s life, Heidegger insisted, but are already present in the present in the sense that “death is a way to be, which Dasein takes over as soon as it is” (Heidegger 2008, p. 245)....
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...Thus, the modern anti-Christian philosophical tradition that found its ultimate articulation in Heidegger’s Being and Time believed itself to have truly progressed beyond the Christian horizon, but it was still preserving its truth.19 This point regarding the enduring indebtedness of modern philosophy to the Christian legacy was repeated by Strauss in a number of other occasions over the next few decades, as was Heidegger’s pride of place in this secularized tradition....
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...The definitive works on Heidegger’s intellectual development building up to Being and Time are (Van Buren 1994; Kisiel 1993; Kisiel and Van Buren 1994; Kisiel and Sheehan 2007)....
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...10 (Taylor 2007; Swatos and Christiano 1999; Casanova 1994)....
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"Karl Löwith’s Secularization Thesis..." refers background in this paper

...…earlier lecture course, he contended that the origin of Descartes’ account of the modern subject, the inception of modern philosophy, is theological: “What was previously established in believing consciousness’ understanding is here secularized [säkularisiert],” he wrote (Heidegger 2005, p. 236)....
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