• Heidegger and Gadamer on the Modern Age : The Sun Setting in the Western Sky Liakos, David 2021 Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual , Vol. 11 , S. 152 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 2165-3275 | 2165-3283 10.5840/gatherings20211110 Abstract

    This essay contributes to research on, and develops a critique of, the later Heidegger’s conception of the relationship between modernity and a future beyond or after the modern age. It is argued that Heidegger does not engage in a reactionary rejection of modernity, since he is methodologically opposed to pure negation. Rather, as the example of his reading of Van Gogh demonstrates, Heidegger uses suggestive poetic hints from modern culture to transcend modernity from within into a “postmodern” and ontologically pluralistic future. The author argues, however, that a more livable, plausible, and politically hopeful response to, and reformation of, the modern age is found in Gadamer’s work. Gadamerian hermeneutics permits a rehabilitation of modern culture and thought (for example, the tradition of humanism) by charitably and sensitively disclosing overlooked insights and resources that enable us to continue living within, without moving beyond, the modern age.

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Liakos, David
Continental Philosophy
Major Philosophers

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