La crise de la modernité dans la conception de Heidegger
The Crisis of Modernity in Heidegger’s View

Summary/Abstract: According to Heidegger, the crisis of modernity is related to the individual’s abandonment of being, to the dissolution of its meaning. The entire evolution of metaphysical thinking, from Plato and Descartes to Nietzsche is “to blame”. The present paper aims to analyze the way Heidegger proceeds to query the Western metaphysics through the deconstruction of the main marks supporting the evolution of metaphysics, identified here with the whole evolution of Western philosophy: the deconstruction of the concepts of truth, of humanism and of metaphysical language synonymous with the subjugation of language by the dictatorship of the public establishment, of the concept of rational animals and of the subject related to the world via representations. From Heidegger’s point of view, the ultimate stage of the individual’s final abandonment of being is constituted by the fulfillment of metaphysics as the essence of planetary technology characterizing today’s history.

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