The Energeia and Image in the Thought of Gadamer in His Late Years

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2018, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (3): 193-200.

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The Energeia and Image in the Thought of Gadamer in His Late Years

Sun Lijun

the School of Literature and Journalism, Shandong University of Finance and Economics

Online:2018-05-25 Published:2018-10-19
About author:Sun Lijun, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Literature and Journalism, Shandong University of Finance and Economics. Her research interests cover aesthetics, especially in the research of phenomenological and philosophical hermeneutic aesthetical thoughts.
Supported by:
the General Project of National Social Sciences Fund (13BZW022)

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Abstract: The concept of energeia is the up-to-date thought in Gadamer's old age, which is also philosophical hermeneutics' upto-date contribution to ontology. The energeia means the force in the development of being. According to the philosophical hermeneutics, being can be divides into three grades: the chaos, the being, and the transformation from chaos to the being. In the transformation from chaos to the being, it is the energeia that makes it happen. The essence of the image is that it is the way of chaos transformation into the being. At the same time, the image preserves the energeia which drives the transformation. The power of image comes from the fact that energeia has the ability of capturing the readers. In the course of history, the image is the power to destroy language conventions and initiate orientation to chaos.

Key words: energeia, ontology, image, language, tradition

Sun Lijun . The Energeia and Image in the Thought of Gadamer in His Late Years [J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2018, 38(3): 193-200.

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