Thesis
Unframing existence: an ethical and theological appropriation of Heidegger's critique of modernity
- Abstract:
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This thesis argues that Heidegger’s thought offers crucial insights into the structural challenges that modernity poses to being an ethical and religious person. I argue that these difficulties come down to an instrumentalist conception of truth, a denial or repression of finitude as the condition of meaningfulness, and a philosophical anthropology that is both too subjectivistic and too objectivistic. Yet while Heidegger was good on the diagnosis, he was reluctant to give more than digres...
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Contributors
+ Pattison, G
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Theology Faculty
Sub department:
Theology and Religion Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Wolfe, J
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Theology Faculty
Sub department:
Theology and Religion Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:8952
- Deposit date:
- 2014-09-15
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Atkins, Z
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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