Аналитика на Dasein и християнска екзистенция
The Analytic of Dasein and Christian Existence

Summary/Abstract: In Heidegger's lecture "Phenomenology of religious life" (1920/21) a still elementary form of his "hermeneutics of facticity" is applied to the interpretation of early Christian existence. Here, constitutive phenomena of Christianity are not derived from general concepts but related, by way of "formal indication" (formale Anzeige), to structural features of "factual life" as such. In Being and Time, this religious background is still recognizable, but neutralized, and that also by reinterpreting some of those Christian phenomena (like the expectation of parousia, or living in the world "as though not") in a non- or even antireligious sense. In the course of Heideggers "turn" from fundamental ontology to the history of being Christianity completely loses its ontological importance. Instead, together with modern science and for very similar reasons, it is regarded to be nothing but an expression and moving force of metaphysics coming to its end in "European nihilism". This outcome is unconvincing, if not an aporia for several reasons - one, and not the least of them, being the principal separation of "thinking" (Denken) or "consideration" (Besinnung), accessible to "the few" only, on the one hand, and the „unsubstantial knowledge" of science, the realm of "the many", or the public, on the other.

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