Factic Life-Experience and Primordial Temporality

The problem of time represents a crucial topic in Heidegger’s philosophy, through which he rethinks the meaning of the Being of the whole metaphysical tradition. The article deals with the analysis of the category of temporality that Heidegger developed in his early Freiburg lectures on the phenomenology of religious life and focuses especially on the phenomenological interpretation of Paul’s epistles. The proclamation of the apostle introduces into the proto-Christian communities the experience of conversion and the expectation of the Parousia, within which the radically historical dimension of existence clearly emerges. This contribution aims at showing that such early Christian temporality cannot be examined on the basis of traditional historical-exegetical paradigms, but it requires a new phenomenological comprehension of factical life experience in the movement of its enactment

Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Temporality · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty