The painting Painting

Perhaps the contemporary French philosophy, under resources, among others, the "last" Lyotard, has been commissioned to give continuity to the problem of Western culture posed by Heidegger. The findings, in the craft of writing, a "something always elusive, and the resulting shock of such data, it seems, according to Lyotard, the essence of modern art: Show what can not be shown, and finding means of expression for express what can not be expressed. Whether or not to share this interpretation, the hiding-unconcealment that Heidegger attributed exclusively to the "phenomenon of the Greek" at the beginning of Western culture seems to be the peculiarity of the postmodern obsession. The possibility of a "truth" to rival the "last god" that is the "Business of the current civilization" - is still destiny of thinking, is destiny even the most ordinary of human expression, which are the more difficult to pronounce.