The Language of Crisis and the Problem of Historical Meaning. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kolakowski
Journal: Journal of Education Culture and Society
Year: 2020

The main task of our paper is to emphasize the relationship between the dominant historical paradigm which emerges at the end of the 19th Century and the contemporary embrace of crisis language. We will see that the dawn of the historical school and of historicism in general brings forth the dissolution of the last remains of the Absolute figures, thus leaving us in front of desolation and emptiness. Post-modern skepticism and relativism became the dominant features that shape our intellectual a