Heidegger’s conference and seminar dedicated, respectively in 1930 and 1931, to phenomenological interpretation of time in Augustine, Confessions, XI, offer many points of interest. This essay recalls them in its first paragraph. It then engages in an analysis of linguistic devices by which Heidegger translates, interprets, and makes own Augustinian main concepts.
Conclusively it draws attention to the proximity between the difficulty of time’s “explicatio” in Confessions and the interrupted “Explikation der Zeit” in Heidegger’s Being and Time, as retrospectively assessed, fifteen years later, in the Letter on Humanism.
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