The apocalypse of being : the esoteric gnosis of Martin Heidegger / Mario Enrique Sacchi ; foreword by Ralph McInerny ; translation by Gabriel Xavier Martinez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacchi, Mario Enrique, 1945-

Standardized Title:

Apocalipsis del ser. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Ontology--History--20th century.

Ontology.

History.

Metaphysics--History--20th century.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

xix, 146 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

Heidegger intended to replace metaphysics by a new kind of thought about that which he called Sein, but in his works this noun is very far from meaning the act of being such as it has been traditionally conceived by Western philosophy. His explanations as to what he does mean by Sein underline his departure from traditional metaphysics. Sein is no longer to be understood as the act of the things that exist in the eternal world, but as something revealed to the human mind in an esoteric way. The association of this esoteric revelation of Sein with Holderlin's theosophy led Heidegger to put forward a new gnosis organized as a substitute of metaphysics and of Christian theology as well.

Contents:

Martin Heidegger's dispute with metaphysics

The Heidegerrian arbitration of first philosophy

The rejection of metaphysics as ontotheology

An illusory extra-metaphysical thinking about Sein

The replacement of metaphysics by an ontologistic gnosis

A metaphysical cataloguing of Heidegger's thought about Sein

The rejection of metaphysics as a regression to gnosticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1890318043

OCLC:

46364623