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Understanding Historicity in Miki and Heidegger

Donguhn Suh 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

Miki Kiyoshi(三木淸,1897-1945), who was one of the students of Nishita Kitaro and studied philosophy under Martin Heidegger in Germany, unfolds his own philosophy under deep influences from Kant and Pascal as well as Heidegger. His notions of generatability (or generation or productivity) from nihil (or emptiness), imagination and philosophy of history are the products of his critical dialogues with Pascal, Kant and Heidegger. As widely known, Heidegger extended from the problem of being to truth, arts and the problem of historicity in his argument of being-thought. Based upon his experience of nihility, Miki also developed his wide and deep arguments on imagination, creativity and historicity. This article first examines Miki’s understanding of historicity in connection to the history of thoughts, and it then seeks for a comparison between Miki’s understanding history and Heidegger’s notion of historicity. By doing so, this article tries to understand the uniqueness of Miki’s thoughts, which is expected to offer a possibility of criticism against Heidegger’s thoughts, i.e. a possibility of rereading Heidegger in terms of Miki’s perspective. Whether the third way is possible would be dependent upon the historical meanings and limitations of the two thinkers, but this article at least aims to show a possibility of mutual criticism between them.

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