Nihilismo y fin de la historia. Una mirada sobre la cuestión de la (pos) modernidad.

Abstract

The present task sets out to establish a close link between the false debate modernism and post-modernism and terms like the end of Revista de Filosofía, 3.ª época, vol. XIII (2000), núm. 24, pgs. 5-44. Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad Complutense. Madrid 6 Vicente Serrano Marín history, the end of ideology and others which competes to characterise the present world. The main tenet holds that this set of ideas is based on the same logic which led to the introduction of the term nihilism in contrast to Enlightenment at the end of 18th century. The so-called postmodernism reached the zenith of this tendency trough seemingly inverting it, by means of a subtle mechanism deriving from the convergence of a dispa rity of traditions as the analytic Anglo-Saxon philosophy and hermeneu tics. Out of this inversion emerged a new theology, almost invulnerable, in so far as it is nihilist, atheistic, as long as it is based on the lack of prin ciple, reference, and reaching even the Real, and in which the appearan ce of pluralism, of complete secularisation emerges. To make an example the basic principles of Habermas are pitted against Foucault, as classical set-pieces of this debate, and in a way sharing this theology, 1.