"To late for the gods”: Three characteristics of a historial perspective be on religion

Abstract

Nowadays, Heidegger is most often remembered as the thinker of technique and of the long precarious night of nihilism, and with good reason. One might derive a view on religion from this standpoint, although hard to reconcile with the crucial role played by Hölderlin in Heidegger’s thinking. Hölderlin is not just a poet who denies the presence of gods among us, and Heidegger is not only the thinker of technical poverty when he reads him.