ABSTRACT
One main similarity between M. Heidegger and L. Wittgenstein is found in what one might call negativity towards the 2500-year-old tradition of asking epistemological questions understood as the search for ultimate Truth. Wittgenstein used the word phenomenology twice to describe his philosophy. If Wittgenstein’s view on the importance of immediate experience is deemed absurd then the entire project of the theory of nothing and the combination of Wittgenstein and Heidegger’s thought in this joint effort is highly problematic. Wittgenstein and Heidegger share thoughts related to a decline, but undoubtedly more significant are the similarities they share in conjunction with phenomenology. The argument in this part is that a short comparative study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger’s engagement with the decline of the technological age, phenomenology and language may result in some new thought on a “theory” of nothing in educational practice.
