Hermeneutic Perspectives on Ontology, After Metaphysics has Been Overcome: From Levinas to Merleau-Ponty
One of the ways in which Heidegger characterised his philosophical project was as overcoming metaphysics. This was a way of expressing the task of destructionor, in Derridas version, deconstructionof the tradition of western philosophy. One of the consequences of Heideggers critique of traditi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Sophia
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-124 |
| IxTheo Classification: | TK Recent history VA Philosophy VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Ontology
B Levinas B Jean-Luc Marion B Metaphysics B Hermeneutics B Gadamer B Merleau-Ponty |
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| Summary: | One of the ways in which Heidegger characterised his philosophical project was as overcoming metaphysics. This was a way of expressing the task of destructionor, in Derridas version, deconstructionof the tradition of western philosophy. One of the consequences of Heideggers critique of traditional western metaphysics is that, in the decades since, there has been a reluctance to engage in anything that might be called metaphysics. This is somewhat ironic, given that one of the branches of metaphysics is ontology, and that Heidegger explicitly describes his own work as phenomenological ontology. This essay sketches some ontological implications of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion, then outlines some of the ways in which that ontology might be modified in light of hermeneutic critiques of Levinas and Marion, and concludes by suggesting that an ontology informed by these hermeneutic insights can be traced in the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-016-0518-0 |