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Modernybés Pabaiga: Hegelis Ir Egzistenciné Fenomenologija
The End of Modernity: Hegel and Existential Phenomenology

Author(s): Tomas Kačerauskas
Subject(s): Epistemology, Existentialism, Phenomenology
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Hegel’s thinking; existential phenomenology; modernity; historicity;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the issue of modernity’s end. Against this background arise connections between Hegel’s philosophy and existential phenomenology. Herewith the concepts of postmodernism and Enlightment are analyzed. The author pays attention to the different contents of the term -phenomenology- and to the different concepts of reality in the Hegel’s and Heidegger’s philosophy. Nevertheless, the author distinguishes three sections common to Hegel’s philosophy and to Heidegger’s thinking. These are: historicity, the creative principle and the dialectics of the beginning and the end. On the basis of these sections the author discusses the phenomenality as belonging to reality as created by us. The thesis of reality’s creation allows one, not only to connect Hegel’s phenomenology and existential thinking, but also to interpret Hegel in the existential perspective.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 58-66
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Lithuanian