RT Article
T1 Hermeneutic Perspectives on Ontology, After Metaphysics has Been Overcome: From Levinas to Merleau-Ponty
JF Sophia
VO 56
IS 1
SP 115
OP 124
A1 Mackinlay, Shane
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1565884825
AB One of the ways in which Heidegger characterised his philosophical project was as ‘overcoming metaphysics.’ This was a way of expressing the task of destruction—or, in Derrida’s version, deconstruction—of the tradition of western philosophy. One of the consequences of Heidegger’s 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.
K1 Levinas
K1 Metaphysics
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 Jean-Luc Marion
K1 Ontology
K1 Gadamer
K1 Merleau-Ponty
DO 10.1007/s11841-016-0518-0