Summary
Ralf Elm: Horizons of the term horizon
Hermeneutic, phenomenological and intercultural studies
This work contains a unique collection of texts by prominent world authors, specialists in their fields, who in a historical-philosophical, systematic and intercultural aspect try to understand the horizon in Greek antiquity, Jewish antiquity, the Christian Middle Ages, then Leibnitz, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, in psychoanalysis, in the Indian, Chinese and Japanese tradition.
The systematic fertility of the concept of horizon is primarily given by its boundary character. Since it is not separable from a Now and Here point of view, the horizon always opens up a specific field. It indicates what we consider meaningful to ask and to answer from a certain intra-horizon perspective, where we are not able to surpass the field of that horizon, nor to gain some last horizon. The receding of the horizon produces a division into a sphere inside and outside it, which also enables the overstepping of the intimate sphere into the unknown. The philosophical attempt to determine the horizon of one's own era requires, of course, clarification with the horizons of other philosophies and cultures.
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