Abstract
The aim of my paper is to show how central is, in the Black Notebooks, Heidegger’s critique of Christendom and how it is strictly tied up with the critique to modernity, about which anti-Semitism is just the most eye-catching and delicate element. I will show how the ground of anti-Semitism sentences is not ontological and neither metaphysical, rather how this anti-Semitism is grounded on the violent critique that Heidegger’s elaborates toward Christendom and Catholicism, starting from the common ground of the oblivion of Being. The Black Notebooks have underlined that this critique is not merely a matter of education and distance from his original faith, but the critique to Christendom and Catholicism (Ãberlegungen III, in GA 94, annotation 174) is an inner necessity of Seinsgeschichtlichkeit. The well-known distinction between Christentum (Christendom) and Christlichkeit (Christianity) – as it has been developed in Phenomenology and Theology – is deepened in the Black Notebooks under the light of the difference between the kerygma and the political organization undertaken by the Christendom. The Jewish-Christian matrix of the Western society, grounded on the mentioned basis, inaugurates the beginning of secularism.
Translated title of the contribution | From Überlegungen to Anmerkungen: The Critique of the Judeo-Christian Tradition in the Heidegger Black Notebooks |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 69-85 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Filosofia Futura |
Volume | 4 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
- Jews
- Christians
- antisemitism
- Judaism