[D66] What Is a Hermeneutic Light?

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http://cultureandcommunication.org/galloway/what-is-a-hermeneutic-light

  Alexander R. Galloway

What Is a Hermeneutic Light?
October 17, 2016	

Of the many unresolved debates surrounding the work of Martin Heidegger, 
the following question returns with some regularity: Is Heidegger’s 
phenomenology ultimately a question of hermeneutics and interpretation, 
or is it ultimately a question of immanence and truth? Is Dasein forever 
questing after a Being that withdraws, or does it somehow achieve a 
primordial communion with the truth of Being? In other words, is 
Heidegger the philosopher of blackness or the philosopher of light?

Hermeneutics was an important topic for theory in the 1960s. Hence it is 
not surprising that Heidegger, who was being rediscovered and rethought 
during that period, would often be framed in terms of hermeneutics. To 
be sure, the critical tradition handed down from post-structuralism 
leaves little room for modes of immanence and immediacy, modes that were 
marginalized as essentialist or otherwise unpleasant (often for good 
reason). Thus it would be easy to assimilate into the tradition of 
hermeneutics a figure like Heidegger, with his complicated withdrawal of 
Being. For where else would he fit?

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