Epilogue: Dwelling and Exile
Epilogue: Dwelling and Exile
This chapter discusses how history is a central theme to the thought of Strauss and Heidegger. Both believed that the era in which they lived brought about the collapse of the tradition and called for a new beginning. Each thinker’s conceptions of the role of history and philosophy in this revolution, however, are radically different. It is as important for Strauss to reject the German metaphysical approach to history as a meaningful process as it is for Heidegger to endorse a version of it. In opposing his recovery of tradition to both the tradition and his contemporaries, Strauss appeals to no authority but only his own insight. Philosophy as he conceives it is not a destiny or fate sent by history or Being as historical.
Keywords: history, Strauss, Heidegger, metaphysical approach, tradition, Being
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