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“Not in Time’s Covenant:” Questions of Time and Eschatology in Heidegger and T.S. Eliot

Publication date: 29.01.2018

Konteksty Kultury, 2017, Volume 14 Issue 3, pp. 245-263

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.17.017.7910

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Thomas Pfau
Duke University. Durham, NC 27708, North Carolina, United States
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“Not in Time’s Covenant:” Questions of Time and Eschatology in Heidegger and T.S. Eliot

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This essay juxtaposes T.S. Eliot’s conception of eschatological time with Heidegger’s existential conception of time as sheer finitude. I argue that Eliot in his late Four Quartets makes the case for time as inevitably, albeit unpredictably, permeated by epiphanic moments of fullness and, thus, as imbued with an eschatological quality. Drawing on Joseph Ratzinger’s work, I argue that eschatological time in Eliot, particularly in the last of his Four Quartets, “Little Gidding,” is inseparable from a form of religious community that is steeped in an ethos of humility.

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Information: Konteksty Kultury, 2017, Volume 14 Issue 3, pp. 245-263

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:
“Not in Time’s Covenant:” Questions of Time and Eschatology in Heidegger and T.S. Eliot
Polish:
„Nie w przymierzu z czasem”. Kwestie czasu i eschatologii u Heideggera i T.S. Eliota

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-2923

Thomas Pfau
Duke University. Durham, NC 27708, North Carolina, United States
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5048-2923 Orcid
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Duke University. Durham, NC 27708, North Carolina, United States

Published at: 29.01.2018

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