Contemporaneity is a »juncture with time« not just in the respect of what follows the time and is in this prospect up-todate and appropriate to the time. Contemporaneity cannot be interpreted as modernism or as actuality, even though it is in reciprocal connection to both. As much as »contemporaneity« nominates what today is in a certain moment of the crosspoint among the leaving and arriving, it does not only form one of the temporal moduses, but its horizontal juncture-point, according to which the time thereupon is. Contemporaneity expresses a junction intermedium of being and time.
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If we summarize the essence of Gadamer’s insights concerning the relevance of the tradition of human sciences for the future of Europe in a globalized world, they can be said to be based on key shifts in thinking in 20th century philosophy, which Gadamer tried to integrate into his own philosophical hermeneutics. His insistence that the transformation in philosophy of the 20th century does not invalidate philosophical tradition as mere “ideology” or “metaphysics” but shows its other face, namely turning to the other, is crucial in this.
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This paper discusses - in the light of comparative literature and from the perspective of the literary genre of the vita (the saint's life) - the fates of two Anglo-Saxon royal abbesses, St Aethelthryth of East Anglia and St Mildrith of Kent who both left a noticeable trace in the hagiography of Anglo-Saxon England. However, in spite of both saints' adherence to the same conventional hagiographic cliché of a virgin saint, some significant differences between St Mildrith and St Aethelthryth are being revealed in the two hagiographic accounts examined in this paper.
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