[lbo-talk] On the Threat from Religion

[Chris Doss]

Heidegger was trying to purge the entire Western conceptual framework, not just religion. ;) Really, "purge" isn't the proper term for him, as it would be for Nietzsche -- "see beyond" would be better.

--- On Thu, 11/20/08, Philp Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I never said I wanted to purge them, on the contrary. But
> that's not to say
> that other people haven't tried. Nietzsche certainly
> did, Derrida, Heidegger
> and Sartre tries to go down this path, Althusser tried to
> do so to an extent
> in Marxism and Foucault has made the enterprise extremely
> popular in
> academia.
>