The Significance of Art for Overcoming Nihilism in the Later Works of M. Heidegger and E. Jünger

Student: Tomashevskaia Anastasiia

Educational Programme: Philosophy (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2021

This paper examines the issue of overcoming nihilism and the role of art in this process in the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Ernst Jünger. The author focuses on the discussion that took place among the thinkers in the texts of 1950-1955, but also refers to their later works. The paper reveals the understanding of the essence of nihilism by Jünger and Heidegger, the possibilities and strategies for overcoming it, as well as the meaning of poetry as a force capable of overcoming nihilism.

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