Abstract
This article aims to demonstrate, by means of a comparison with Lacoste’s proposal, that we can find a particular phenomenology of liturgy in the early Heidegger’s phenomenology of religion, centered in the structure of “being-placed before God”. His examination of this structure manages to go deeper than Lacoste in order to account for the essence of human existence. With this purpose in mind, in the first section of the article I will the present the basic features of the liturgical experience, as it is introduced in Experience and the Absolute. In the second section, I will analyze the early Heidegger’s phenomenology of religion and its interpretation of Christian factical life experience. Finally, in the third section, I will bring the insights from both sections together to establish the particularities of Heidegger’s phenomenology of liturgy.
Highlights
What could philosophy learn by studying religion? Is it possible to comprehend existence in a better way by paying attention to religious phenomena? Could religious experience teach us something about factical life experience? what about
“liturgical experience”? Would an analysis of the essence of ritual practices illuminate what philosophy and religious studies can say about religion and its significance for human life?
The early Heidegger’s phenomenology of religion can be read as a phenomenology of liturgy, in Lacoste’s terms, centered in the structure of
Summary
Would an analysis of the essence of ritual practices illuminate what philosophy and religious studies can say about religion and its significance for human life?. At the end of the article, Schrijvers suggests that one could find significant analogies between the formal structures of Experience and the Absolute and those of Being and Time.. At the end of the article, Schrijvers suggests that one could find significant analogies between the formal structures of Experience and the Absolute and those of Being and Time.2 It is, no secret that, for Lacoste, Heidegger’s thought constitutes a proposal to overcome, and the principal source of his philosophy.
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