Heidegger and the Gods (I): Philosophy and Theology

Undergraduate / Graduate

This seminar marks the beginning of a triad - (II) Philosophy and Poetry, (III) Philosophy and Politics - which confronts Heidegger's thinking with particular attention to the question of what significance it attaches to the gods and to the divine after the "death of God" - from the early encounter with Christian theology; to the expectation of the "last God as beginning"; to the conception of the "fourfold" of heaven and earth, mortals and divinities; to the saying "Only a God can save us." At the center will be Heidegger's appeal to Hölderlin's poetry; the consequences for philosophy and politics will form the vanishing point.