Last God

mcausey

mcausey (2003-02-26 08:51:01): Why does Heidegger speak of the "last" god (der letzte Gott) in the Contributions (Beiträge zur Philosophie)? Why "last"? Why not "another" or a "new" or "the next" god? How is the way prepared for this god to show? Are we given any formal conditions for this in the Contibutions or elsewhere?

Daniel Ferrer (2003-04-05 17:03:34):

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Originally posted by mcausey:
Why does Heidegger speak of the "last" god (der letzte Gott) in the Contributions (Beiträge zur Philosophie)? Why "last"? Why not "another" or a "new" or "the next" god? How is the way prepared for this god to show? Are we given any formal conditions for this in the Contibutions or elsewhere?



I have some clues but no answers.

F.W.J. Schelling
speaks of the last God in "Philosophie der Kunst" ( edition 1966) by Schelling,
p. 76 he uses the expression. "Der letzte Gott".
I think there maybe another place in Schelling.
Also, people make references to Exodus 33.
You can have a look at:
TI: Heidegger's Last God and the Schelling Connection
AU: Seidel,-George-J
SO: Laval-Theologique-et-Philosophique. F 99; 55(1): 85-98

Some books about GA65 in general are listed here:
http://www.lib.cmich.edu/bibliographers/danielferrer/GA65bib.htm

One in German is closer to your topic is here:
Coriando, P.-L. (1998). Der letzte Gott als Anfang : zur ab-gründigen Zeit-Räumlichkeit des Übergangs in Heideggers "Beiträgen zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)". München, W. Fink Verlag.

I am not sure how much this helps.

Thanks, Daniel Fidel Ferrer.

mcausey (2003-04-11 12:11:29): Actually this does help. I had not come across Coriando's work. It should be very relevant to my interest.

I am wondering if the translation for "letzte" as "last" is somewhat problematic. I believe the German would also allow "ultimate" as a translation. In this case we would be closer to the Tillichean et. al notion of the God beyond God. Tillich was of course a colleague of Heidegger's at Marburg.

Thanks for the bibliographical help!

ottomanic-dasein (2003-04-12 09:31:22):

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Originally posted by mcausey:
Why does Heidegger speak of the "last" god (der letzte Gott) in the Contributions (Beiträge zur Philosophie)? Why "last"? Why not "another" or a "new" or "the next" god? How is the way prepared for this god to show? Are we given any formal conditions for this in the Contibutions or elsewhere?

Is Heideggerian notion as der letze Gott deep related to islam in the ontolojical sense( especially,İbn- Arabi's content)? because islam's holy book Quaran is the last book...intuitionally, 'the last' might be symbolized to Allah !!! Again this is(may be) ontological argumant...not,nowadays, a image of islam in the globe after 11 september...
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