Martin Heidegger e a superação do niilismo da modernidade: Arte, filosofia e política em confronto com a era da técnica

Abstract

This thesis deals with Martin Heidegger’s relationship with modernity and with technics. The fundamental bibliographical references are the Contributions to philosophy (of the Event) and the posthumous works that belongs to it, all of which contain the core of the turning (die Kehre) period. These posthumous works by Heidegger are also called “esoteric”, and contain a tension with the public sphere dominated by machination. There is in them a saturation of a non-technical phenomenon, the appropriating event (Ereignis), which emerges from the abyssal ground of Being and re-enchants the disenchanted world of modernity. The thesis thus both confronts Heidegger with the hegemonic philosophical discourse of modernity, and demonstrates the non-technical element that can still blossom and re-enchant the world. The non-technical element is both the role of art in the modern world, as well as the archaic element, the poietic language, of the pre-Socratics and Eastern (non-Western) thought, or even the non-technical element of the political. This confrontation with modernity demonstrates the author’s disposition towards history, and aims to discover whether history can still be unveiled, despite the blatant ahistoricity of machination.