Hermeneutics for the End of the World
End of the World, Hermeneutics, Media Culture, Historicity
This research investigates a series of cultural and artistic objects that reveal the symbol of the end of the world from expressive and grandiose destructions. The meanings of the end of the world arise from the relationship of several cases that circulate in different media, therefore, the research proposes to study such recurrences in order to understand this end of the world as a cultural and historical phenomenon that goes beyond specific objects. The investigation has as its method the hermeneutic phenomenology through the dialogue with the work of Martin Heidegger, Hans Gadamer, Peter Sloterdijk and Paul Ricoeur. The phenomenological and hermeneutic method starts with reflections on the World, passing through the historical role in the construction of the hermeneutic circle of interpreting the end of the world as a historical symbol, closing with Paul Ricoeur's long hermeneutical route in dialogues with theorists of imagination and media as a onto-epistemological reflection, then, to propose a series of analyzes on the phenomenon of the end of the world as a cultural, media and imaginative reverberation.