Phenomenology of Religious Life

Matthias Fritsch is Associate Professor and Department Chair in Philosophy at Concordia University. He is author of The Promise Memory: History and Politics in Marx, Benjamin, and Derrida. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. She is author of The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature.

"Scrupulously prepared and eminently readable. What Heidegger undertakes here is nothing less than a phenomenological destruction of the history of religion. —Choice"—"We get a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean for Heidegger from these lectures . . . . The reader will meet here a surprising Heidegger."—John D. Caputo

• 1.INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF RELIGION2.AUGUSTINE AND NEO-PLATONISM3.THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MEDIEVAL MYSTICISM