La philosophie en temps de détresse
Philosophy in a Destitute Time

Summary/Abstract: Paraphrasing Heidegger, we can define our time as a destitute time, one in which philosophy loses its telos. The question then arises, what is philosophy today? It is not easy to answer one such question, after the in the wake of nihilism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, contingentism. Philosophy seems to have completely vanished and reduced to a mere play of words and language. In this paper I argue that we are not confronting the actual disappearance, but a fading of, a transition to a new state of philosophy. As Merleau-Ponty shows, to overcame the crisis of meaning and scope of philosophy we must not neglect those “cultural symptoms” in literature, arts, music, human and natural sciences that attest to the dawning of a “fundamental system of thought”. Special attention must be paid to the world of images that reveal our particularistic modality of being-in-the-world. According to Wunenburger, a philosophy of images has to show the primary iconosphere from which consciousness establishes its relation to the world.

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