Niilismo e hierofania: uma abordagem a partir do confronto entre Nietzsche e Heidegger

Abstract

The main goal of the present work/investigation is to characterize the way of accomplishment of the philosophic discourse on hierophany in the contemporary thought, which is essentially marked by nihilism. In order to achieve such target, it is crucial to clarify the ontological profiles of the occurrence of the sacred in the midst of the hermeneutical horizon opened by the death of God/nihilism, which characterizes the place where the contemporary philosophical discourses emerge from. Such discourses borrowed the historical imperatives of the crisis of the metaphysical metanarratives that assail us. This investigation will be developed amid a calculated strategy involving the thoughts of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Nietzsche allows the understanding of hierophany through existential emphasis which fuses eternity and temporariness through conceptual operators will of power, eternal return of it and Dionisio . Heidegger, on the other hand, leads us to conceive hierophany in the historical-epochal occurrence of the world. Although both think hierophany in different ways, their discourses arise from the assumption of the ontological unfoldings of the occurrence of the death of God/nihilism. This leads them to be differentiated but complementary answers to the issue of the hierophany in the world of the death of God/nihilism. In order to perceive this complementarity and difference, the present work will confront/compare Nietzsche and Heidegger - a necessary hermeneutical strategy which enables us to understand the point of unity and differentiation of these two thinkers, since their insights of hierophany are basically distinct from those of tradition. To make this difference clear, the present research must face the issue of the sacred in the light of this tradition, which led us to describe several concepts originating from the jewish-christian philosophical thought, such as St Agustin, St Tomas, Boecio, Pseudo-Denis among others.