The Incurious Seeker's Quest for Meaning: Heidegger, Mood and Christianity

by Kevin Sludds

Overview

The author explores Martin Heidegger's intimate connections with Christianity by examining the close ties he and his family had to the Catholic Church and from within his fundamental ontology. He demonstrates through literary and comparative analysis the affinity that exists between a philosophy of facticity and Christian theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034317153
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	02/08/2014
Series:	Religions and Discourse , #57
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Kevin Sludds is an award-winning poet and philosopher. He is Head of Department of General Studies at Baze University, Abuja, Nigeria. He is also the author of Emotions: Their Cognitive Base and Ontological Importance (Peter Lang, 2009).

Table of Contents

Contents: The Importance of Heidegger’s Confrontation with Christianity in his Early Career – The Incurious Seeker’s Quest for Meaning – Being-in-the-world, the Make-up of the World and Disclosure – The Importance of Affective States at an Ontic Level, Fallenness and Christian Sin – The Importance of Affective States at an Ontological Level and Ontological Guilt – Inauthentic/Authentic Anxiety, Rudolf Otto and Anxiety’s Religious Revelations – Death and Heidegger’s Secularising of Christian Theology – Dasein’s Call to Authenticity and Misinterpretations of it – Dasein’s Authentic Transformation, Contrasts and Christian Parallels.