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T1 Beyond Heideggerian Gelassenheit and Lichtungen: Christian Thought in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
A1 Castro, Sixto J.
A1 Castro, Sixto J.
AB The Thin Red Line is a film by Terrence Malick that is usually read in a Heideggerian key, due precisely to the intellectual formation of the author, who was a professor of phenomenology and translator of Heidegger before becoming a filmmaker. However, read in the light of some of his later works, it can be seen as an oblique preamble for the manifest theism that The Tree of Life and A Hidden Life, two manifestly 21st-century religious films, unfold. In The Thin Red Line, Malick gives cinematographic form to some Heideggerian concepts in order to go beyond Heideggerian post-Christian philosophy and make the viewers adopt a mystical gaze that allows them to contemplate creation from a point of view that is neither utilitarian nor technical, but rather characterised by the perspective of Gelassenheit. A religious reading of this Heideggerian idea allows access to Heidegger’s source, which is Meister Eckhart, who is as present in Malick’s film(s) as Heideggerian philosophy itself.
YR 2026
FD 2026
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83009
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/83009
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NO Religions, 2026, 17, n. 1: 110.
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-feb-2026