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The febrile hurly-burly of contemporary life is not friendly to reflection on the sense of human life; in fact, it is not friendly to reflection at all, because reflection requires pause, thought, silence. In searching for the grounds of the human condition, are able minds capable of backing out of the present arena of chaos? It is rare to have the ability to find a shadow, to be in its darkness, to let someone observe the kaleidoscope of occurrences of a scene, and to analyze their essences. To stop in silence and darkness, as contrary to moving in turmoil and glare, is distinctive to the specific situation of the searcher. Brightness, especially in its intensification, becomes a dazzling brightness. When someone is hidden in darkness he can see more, and a shadow could be grasped as the lowest threshold of light, as the base of its spectrum, because of which therein the essence of light reveals all.
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See M. Heidegger, Die Zeit des Weltbildes, in: Holzwege (Frankfurt a/Main, 1962).
See H.-G. Gadamer, Truth and Method (New York: Seabury Press, 1975), Part I.
See H.-G. Gadamer, Die Aktualität des Schonen. Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest (Stuttgart, 1977).
See M. Heidegger, Being and Time (Oxford: Blackwell, 1964).
See M. Heidegger, Erlauterungen zu Holderlins Dichtung (Frankfurt a/Main, 1971), pp. 3–16.
See H.-G. Gadamer, “Asthetik und Hermeneutik,” in: Kleine Schriften, II, Interpretationen (Tubingen, 1967).
On the subject of symbols Paul Ricoeur writes a lot — according to him, the proper territory of hermeneutics is the symbolic structure. This structure is every semantic structure, in which a direct, literal sense is pointed out beside another, indirect sense, which cannot be grasped differently from that first one. Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of symbols changes into a hermeneutics of metaphor by means of methodological advantages, which follows from metaphors that could be analyzed in their linguistic aspects. See P. Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and Surplus of Meaning (Fort Worth, 1976), and P. Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Cambridge, 1981).
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Pawliszyn, A. (2004). Interhuman Communication Beyond the Limits of Time (Gadamer) and the Temporality of Lonely Dasein (Heidegger). In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Does the World Exist?. Analecta Husserliana, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0047-5_18
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