Jessica Frazier

Some build on (what 2000 years later became known in the West as) 'Bradley's Regress', effectively showing that all reality is at base unified by a single medium that allows things to connect.

Others develop an alternative to the Cosmological Argument in Abrahamic theism, using modal explanation rather than causal sequence to argue that there must be a unified foundation of reality.

She argues that Gadamer weaves insights from the late Plato and Hegel into his Heideggerian roots, and creates a distinctive picture of Being as pure form.

This picture is meant to continue the project of appreciating and participating in existence, whilst avoiding the reifying and objectifying tendencies of which Nietzsche warned.

She also explores the ways that Gadamer's later essays bring out the implications of this view for ethics, arts, globalism, and socio-political theory.