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Art matters : a critical commentary on Heidegger's "The origin of the work of art" / by Karsten Harries.
| Author/creator | Harries, Karsten |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | [Dordrecht] : Springer, ©2009. |
| Description | xii, 201 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contributions to phenomenology ; v. 57 Contributions to phenomenology ; v. 57. ^A244850 |
| Contents | Introduction : the end of art ? ; Questioning aesthetics ; Heidegger contra Hegel ; The aesthetic approach ; Art and truth ; The advent of truth -- In search of a hero ; Authenticity and art ; Authenticity and silence ; Guilt and conscience ; Resoluteness and responsibility ; Looking for a hero -- Leaders and followers ; Choosing a hero ; The rectorate ; A "Private National Socialism" ; The Greek origin of science ; Holy earth ; Polemos ; "All that is great stands the storm" ; A letter -- Origins ; Roots ; Disintegration and renewal ; Metaphysics and the loss of meaning ; The need for art ; The origin of metaphysics ; Art as origin -- Art work and thing ; The work of art as a thing ; What is a thing? ; First inadequate answer : the thing as bearer of properties ; Second inadequate answer : the thing as object of perception ; Third inadequate answer : the thing as formed matter ; Looking to a work of art for an answer-- A pair of shoes ; Peasant shoes ; A willful interpretation? ; Seeing a world in a pair of shoes ; The being of equipment ; A "Happening of Truth"? ; Beauty and truth -- Work and world ; The counterplay of world and earth ; The self-subsistence of the work of art ; A Greek temple ; What temple? ; House of God and gate of heaven -- World and earth ; On the way to the Ereignis ; Heidegger's "world" ; Heidegger's "Earth" ; The strife of earth and world ; The place of art in a "needy age" -- The essence of truth ; Art and truth ; The meaning of "truth" ; Truth as unconcealedness ; "The nature of truth is untruth" ; Art as one way in which truth happens -- Truth and art ; Art and Techne ; Craftsman and artist ; The happening of truth in art ; The happening of truth in the founding of a state ; The happening of truth in faith ; The happening of truth in sacrifice ; The happening of truth in thought -- Creators and preservers ; The rift of world and earth ; The work of art as something created ; Creators and preservers ; Binding freedom ; Art as origin of creators and preservers -- Art is poetry ; Poetry : the essence of art ; Poetry and poesy ; The creativity of preserving ; Art as the origin of truth -- Conclusion : Epilogue and Addendum ; The riddle of the beautiful ; Art and boredom ; Hegel or Holderlin? ; Truth and beauty ; Three final thoughts ; Coda : a Chinese tale. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009921995 |
| ISBN | 9781402099885 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1402099886 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1402099894 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 9781402099892 (ebk.) |