THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONCEPTS OF HISTORY AND TIME IN AURELIUS AUGUSTINE AND MARTIN HEIDEGGER: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH CONTEXT

The aim of the article is to outline the current research consensus on the general relationship between the philosophies of Augustine and Heidegger in the context of philosophy of history and philosophy of time. For this comparison, the texts ‘Augustinian Elements in Heidegger’s Philosophical Anthropology: A Study of the Early Lecture Course on Augustine’ by Chad Engelland and ‘Heidegger's Confessions: The Remains of Saint Augustine in Being and Time and Beyond’ by Ryan Coyne are analysed. In order to clarify certain subjects in more detail, the texts of other authors who share the general interpretive approaches of Engelland and Coyne, as well as a number of encyclopaedic and reference materials, primarily the Cambridge Compendium of Heideggerian Terminology ‘Heidegger Lexicon’, are analysed. Finally, the article outlines the content of the current scientific consensus on the relationship between Augustine's and Heidegger’s understandings of historicity and temporality in the following ways: 1) the researchers textually confirm the genetic origin of certain concepts and plots of Heidegger’s philosophy from his reading of Augustine's Confessions; 2) the researchers focus on Heidegger’s criticality in relation to the text of the Confessions, which eventually influenced his reinterpretation of this philosophy.