Fundamental ontology and technology: a contribution to the study of "Kehre" in Heidegger s thought / Ontologia fundamental e tecnica : uma contribuição ao estudo da "Kehre" no pensamento de Heidegger

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2007

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This work s objective is to study the Kehre, the inflection initiated in Heidegger´s thought during the 30s due to his relationship with the question of technique. The so called "turn" is defined as a conversion of the question of the "meaning of being" to the question of the "truth of being", thought of as a "topology of being". Heidegger s trajectory will be considered by conciliating two lines of interpretation: one which treats the Kehre as a consequence of inner contradictions in the project of fundamental ontology; and another one which comprehends it as the result of new challenges that occurred to his way of thinking: fundamentally, technique and the involvement with National-Socialism. The thesis argues that, in consequence of the inner difficulties of the existential analytic the project of a fundamental ontology proved, already at the end of 20s, to be insufficient to deconstruct the metaphysics of presence. However, these difficulties became intensified and clearer only by means of the problem of technique, which lead to problems which could not be perceived in the field of fundamental ontology. In relation to the inner difficulties of fundamental ontology three aspects will be emphasized: 1) the impossibility to conclude the project of the science of being; 2) the difficulty to surmount the so-called "philosophy of subjectivity"; 3) the insufficiency of existential analytic to destroy the history of ontology and to cause the Dasein to appropriate its own time. Concerning technique, the dialog with Ernst Jünger will be emphasized as well as the fact that Heidegger s confrontation with technique is responsible for his engagement and for his disappointment with the National-Socialist movement; for his reflections concerning art and language (which start in the second half of the 30s); and also for the elaboration of some fundamental concepts of his late thought, like: Ereignis; "topology of being" and Geviert. Finally, it should be proved that the Kehre is a gradual process, although radical, since it relates to the origin of truth. It represents a gradual abandonment of temporality as a transcendent horizon for the understanding of being, showing the necessity to search for an origin of truth in the epochal sendings of being itself.

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truth topology nazismo ontologia topologia ontology mean (philosophy) nazism verdade sentido (filosofia)

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