Delimitations

<p>Since Hegel philosophers have declared repeatedly that metaphysics is at an end a pronouncement that has sparked much contemporary philosophical debate. What exactly does the end or closure of metaphysics mean and what are the implications of this view?<br /><br />John Sallis characterizes the end of metaphysics as a limit or horizon both enclosing metaphysical thought and opening the field of thinking beyond it. He elaborates five areas in which the boundaries of thinking are extended: imagination as an opening power the radicalizing of phenomenology's injunction to attend to the things themselves Heidegger's shift of thinking toward an opening or clearing archaic closure through a return to Plato and Heraclitus and the nonidentity that takes place in the act of delimitation. This last question is developed in relation to Husserl's project of a pure phenomenology to the debate between hermeneutics and deconstruction and to the secluding of ground announced in Schelling's thought.</p>