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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
 
In Goodreads, Chungsoo Lee reviews Ryan Coyne's Heidegger's Confessions: The Remains of Saint Augustine in Being and Time and Beyond.
Through careful reading of Heidegger’s crucial texts at every juncture of the latter’s thought development, Coyne forces Heidegger into confessing that he (Heidegger) had to rely on theological language in order to “de-theologize” (Heidegger’s term) his thought. In showing this, Coyne establishes his own thesis: That the ‘thoughtful’ language that seeks to describe the movement of Beyng beyond metaphysics, beyond the language of onto-theology, ends up heavily dependent on such language. Indeed, a language beyond onto-theology is not possible, as Heidegger’s philosophic development (Coyne hopes) shows—with the consequence that philosophy of religion (an oxymoron for Heidegger) cannot move beyond the ontic language of history, traditions, and of theology.
 
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