The Asceticism of Transparency: A Religious and Racial Genealogy of Heidegger’s Notion of Authenticity
This article interprets Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time with two objectives. First, it argues that, for Heidegger, temporality and affectivity implicate each other and that this coupling might be read as a critique of abstract modern notions of time. Second, it claims that the affectivity and temp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2024
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Political theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 154–170 |
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Transparency
B Heidegger B Affectivity B Race B Asceticism B Temporality B Eschatology |
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| Summary: | This article interprets Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time with two objectives. First, it argues that, for Heidegger, temporality and affectivity implicate each other and that this coupling might be read as a critique of abstract modern notions of time. Second, it claims that the affectivity and temporality that characterize the ideal of “authentic existence” in Being and Time correspond to a white Protestant ideal of subjectivity. While the article looks to highlight the usefulness of Heidegger’s comprehension of temporality/affectivity, it also warns the reader against upholding “authenticity” as a neutral ideal of liberated existence. Ultimately, the article delineates the religious and racial genealogy that, affectively and temporally, characterizes “authenticity.” By articulating the Protestant eschatological experience that undergirds this model of subjectivity and the racialized connotations of “transparency,” the article re-interprets “authenticity” as an ascetic ideal defined by an unending pursuit of becoming-transparent via the re-appropriation of oneself and the world. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2023.2185194 |