Heidegger u islamskom svijetu: novi putevi za islamsko mišljenje
Heidegger in the Islamicate world: New Paths for Islamic thinking

Summary/Abstract: Heidegger in the Islamicate World (edited by Kata Moser of Ruhr University Bochum; Urs Gösken of Zurich University; Josh Hayes of Alvernia University) is a welcome contribution to scholarship because it highlights critically how a „Western” philosophy – here Martin Heidegger’s philosophy – is able to challenge the paradigms of Islamic thought without being conditioned by religious worries and prejudices. This is at the end the reason why the editors chose to call „Islamicate” instead of „Islamic” world and thought their field of interest. They apply Marshall Hodgson’s definition: „Islamicate would refer not directly to the religion, Islam, itself, but to the social and cultural complex historically associated with Islam and the Muslims, both among Muslims themselves and even when found among non-Muslims”. The editors convey clearly from the beginning their aim: „the aim of our volume consists in challenging the facile preconception that all the Islamicate reception of Heidegger is fundamentalist in nature and reductionist in its procedure”. this intention refers implicitly to the widely misunderstood and misleading presupposition that Heidegger was a „reactionary” thinker, primarily because compromised with Nazism, or for other more bizarre reasons. It is worthy of praise that the editors and the authors of the volume did not fall in the trap. Heidegger remains in any case a giant of philosophy, whether he was a reactionary or not.

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