Death, rebirth, and a sense of ease: hermeneutic truth after Heidegger

• Authors: Sturgess Jessica
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

By way of examining the shift in the development of philosophy as a system-building enterprise to a rhetorical practice, this essay investigates Martin Heidegger’s contribution to communication and rhetorical theory as pertains to the relationship between rhetoric and truth. Traditional correspondence theories of truth, wherein truth is the mere agreement of an assertion to its object, eclipse a more primordial truth, namely that of aletheia or uncovering. As a result, language and our rhetorical practices become but a mere tool for the establishment of correspondence. The essay suggests that Heidegger’s articulation of truth as uncovering offers an accomplished way of understanding possibility, pathos, and shared world-disclosure as they are implicated in both truth and our ethical and rhetorical practices.

Keywords

EN

truth; rhetorical theory; hermeneutics

PL

prawda; teoria retoryczna; hermeneutyka

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-49

Contributors

author

Sturgess Jessica

• Purdue University, Brian Lamb School of Communication, 100 North University Street, IN 47907-2098 West Lafayette, USA