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Modernists lived through an era of uncertainty and great upheaval that saw its peak in The Great War. The modernists, indeed, were struggling to find meaning in a world where all tradition metaphysical belief are negated by the failings of civilization. It is within this context that the greater definition of hermeneutics advanced by Martin Heidegger as not only the interpretation of texts, scripture, and discourse, but also of reality itself finds a central position. In this paper I deal with the hermeneutics of modernism by taking as an example the works of T.S Eliot. My paper intends to show that hermeneutics is a “tool” of crisis whereby both reality and tradition are put in a dialectic interaction to redefine both of them in an effort to rebuild the decaying meaning of human existence. In doing so I draw heavily on the ideas of Heidegger as well as notable critics who worked on Eliot while undertaking a close analysis of his works
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