Heidegger as a Colonial Thinker: Puritanism and Germany’s Errand into the Wilderness

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Critical Research on Religion Pub Date : 2023-05-10 DOI:10.1177/20503032231174206

Markus Weidler

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Abstract

In the turbulent 1930s, Martin Heidegger gave a lecture on “Logic as the Question Concerning the Essence of Language.” Upon close inspection, this text expounds a form of covenantal thinking guided by the Puritan theme of an errand into the wilderness. The proffered analysis shows how Heidegger invokes a poetic conception of colony to reconfigure Germany’s self-image as a culture nation in search of a “new past.” What can be gleaned from this account is a central but neglected link between Heidegger’s thought and colonial discourse, in uneasy proximity to a special form of eschatological racism which divides humanity into spiritual classes marked by varying degrees of fitness for salvation.

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作为殖民思想家的海德格尔：清教主义与德国的“误入荒野”

在动荡的20世纪30年代，马丁·海德格尔(Martin Heidegger)做了一场题为“作为语言本质问题的逻辑”的演讲。经过仔细检查，这篇文章阐述了一种契约思维的形式，这种思维是由清教徒到荒野去的差事这一主题所引导的。所提供的分析显示了海德格尔如何调用殖民地的诗意概念来重新配置德国作为一个寻找“新过去”的文化民族的自我形象。从这个描述中可以收集到的是海德格尔思想和殖民话语之间的一个核心但被忽视的联系，它令人不安地接近于一种特殊形式的末世论种族主义，这种种族主义将人类划分为以不同程度的适合救赎为标志的精神阶级。

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期刊介绍： Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature. A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts. It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies. The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts. These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity. The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.