HEIDEGGER'S CONFESSIONS

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself ackn owledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger's Confessions, Ryan Coyne isolates a crucially important player in this story: Saint Augustine. Uncovering the significance of Saint Augustine in Heideggers philosophy, he detai ls the complex and conflicted ways in which Heidegger paradoxically sought to define himself against the Christian tradition while a t the sam...[Read more]