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THEOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL POETICS
THEOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS AND PHILOSOPHICAL POETICS

Author(s): Tomas Kačerauskas
Subject(s): Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Existentialism, Hermeneutics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Theology; existential philosophy; hermeneutics; poetic thinking

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Heidegger’s attitudes towards theology. Heidegger,stating that existential philosophy and theology are incompatible, advances a thesis of not objectivating poetic thinking. Whereas, Ricoeur’s biblical hermeneutics is based on his theory of metaphor. The lingual act here means the destruction of the old outlook for the sake of the new one. In this dramatic way cognition occurs as a meeting. The poetic thinking of the late Heidegger is also based on a meeting that covers both horizontal coexistence and vertical direction. The author raises the question whether the poetic thinking of the late Heidegger is not theological?

  • Issue Year: 14/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 95-107
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English