Abstract
The syntagm “revealing/concealing” has been instrumental within phenomenology, which followed after the collapse of the metaphysics. It has been used by Heidegger to give account to a mode of being and thinking of image (Bild) after the loss of the intelligible, due to its unsettled dynamics and potential to disrupt the dualism of Platonism challenged by Nietzsche. Yet the substance of this contribution, intended to express the symptom of perception of premodern image, must greatly differ from the grounds of phenomenology. This paper aims to bring however some arguments in support of the instrumentality of this logo, and to engage in the analysis certain pertinent elements from the latest of the phenomenology of revelation of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion. As I will argue in the paper, the dynamics expressed in this syntagm “revelation/concealment” has the potential not only to disrupt the Platonic dualism, but also to provide the arguments to challenge the misunderstood dualism of Platonism itself as it was incorporated into the Western thinking. The subject of this paper will provide the means for this demonstration, and hopefully shed new lights on the nature of the premodern image. My argument is based on the third Platonic term – χώρα – a concept with a long tradition since Antiquity until the Byzantine era. I will take further her argument and explore the paradigmatic dimension of this syntagm which could be viewed as “an integrated part of the ancient and premodern image phenomenon.”
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Revealing/Concealing: (in)visibility in pre-modern societies |
| Publisher | Wilhelm Fink Verlag |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |