Spengler’s work is typically represented as speculative philosophy of history. However, I argue that there is good reason to consider much of his thought as preoccupied with existential and phenomenological questions about the nature and ends of human existence, rather than with history per se. In this paper I consider Spengler’s work in comparison with Heidegger’s history of Being and analysis of technological modernity. I argue that Spengler’s considerable proximity to much of Heidegger’s thought compels us to reconsider the nature (...) and scope of Spengler’s philosophical project. (shrink)

The 'Metaphysics of Dasein ' is the name which Heidegger gave to a new philosophical project developed immediately after the partial publication of his masterwork Being and Time. As Heidegger was later to recall, an 'overturning' took place at that moment, more precisely right in the middle of the 1929 treatise On the Essence of Ground. Between the fundamental-ontological formulation of the question of being and its metaphysical rephrasing, Heidegger discovered that a 'metaphysical freedom' stood at the root of Dasein (...) 's relation to his world and, thus, at the basis of his whole ontological questioning. This article will show how the very structure of the 1929 essay clearly illustrates the path Heidegger followed between Being and Time and the new philosophical beginning of the mid 1930s. It will conclude with a few critical remarks concerning Heidegger 's attempt to free his thinking from traditional philosophy and to overcome metaphysics. (shrink)

El secreto de Ser y tiempo y de su constante presencia cultural y filosófica radica en su extraordinaria riqueza interpretativa a la hora de diagnosticar la conciencia moral y ética de nuestra época. Este texto no desarrolla una teoría filosófica entre otras, sino que afronta el reto de pensar a fondo uno de los problemas centrales de la historia de la filosofía: la cuestión del ser humano y su particular relación con el ser en general. Desde este punto de vista, (...) el presente trabajo explora la posibilidad de leer esta obra fundamental de Heidegger como una ética del cuidado de sí, esto es, como un libro que promueve un cultivo de sí y de los otros. (shrink)