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Martin Heidegger and the Question of Interpretation

Master Abstract

Martin Heidegger's fundamental ontology is of tangible influence on the question of interpretation. Finding the history of Being synonymous with the history of the forgetfulness of Being, Heidegger's “destruktion” of the history of ontology has provided insights into the developments of the twentieth-century literary interpretation. With the publication of Being and Time, the metaphysical foundations of the New Criticism are rigorously questioned. A sense of situatedness of the act of interpretation is foregrounded. With Heidegger, interpretation is “a going beyond” traditional points of departure, be it the author,representation, or the reader. The work of art can be approached in terms of its revealing of truth. It becomes a thing in itself. This matter-of-factness of the work of art has given way to an absurd tone and a sense of an ending, responsible to a considerable extent for the appearance of deconstruction as a postmodern strategy of reading.

PHD Title

Postcolonial Existentialism: Towards a New Critical Perspective

PHD Abstract

This study presents postcolonial existentialism as a critical perspective that deals with cyberexistence which, in turn, presents an existential mode of being that dissolves both the self, the other, and the real as the zone of lived experience. This nascent existential mode departs from the human to the posthuman. The thesis therefore tries to establish its major assumptions on an ontology that relational rather than separational, where human existence is not without anchors of reality. Seeking a different ground, Avicenna’s philosophy of Being is presented. Avicenna’s relational ontology is one that finds ontological significance for man’s anchors of reality in a way that can challenge the reductive attitude of being-plugged to cyberspace. As application, The Matrix film trilogy is analyses in the light of postcolonial existentialism. The study, thus, aims to contribute to critical and cultural studies based on a different philosophical background.