Publication details
A caminho do nada: a questão do progresso da humanidade ocidental e do papel da língua nas reflexões de Heidegger, Benjamin e Flusser
| Title in English | On the way to nothing: the question of the progress of Western humanity and the role of language in the reflections of Heidegger, Benjamin and Flusser |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Flusser Studies |
| Citation | |
| web | https://www.flusserstudies.net/sites/www.flusserstudies.net/files/media/attachments/eva-b-caminho.pdf |
| Keywords | language theory, historical progress, guilt, nihilism, metaphysics |
| Description | This essay designs a line of philosophical thought that relates the progress of modern humanity that led it to nihilism with the profanation of thought and, thus, with the profanation of language. We map this trend in German philosophy in the interwar period, focusing on Martin Heidegger's text “Nietzsche's word 'God is Dead'” and Walter Benjamin's monograph The Origin of German Tragic Drama. The focus on the concepts of progress and guilt and the metaphysical dimension of our thought and our language seeks to show the importance of these philosophers in Vilém Flusser's early writings and in his articulation of the theory of language. |