Art Matters - A Critical Commentary on Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art”

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

1 Introduction: The End of Art?

1. Questioning Aesthetics

2. Heidegger Contra Hegel

3. The Aesthetic Approach

4. Art and Truth

5. The Advent of Truth

Notes

2 In Search of a Hero

1. Authenticity and Art

2. Authenticity and Silence

3. Guilt and Conscience

4. Resoluteness and Responsibility

5. Looking for a Hero

Notes

3 Leaders and Followers

1. Choosing a Hero

2. The Rectorate

3. A “Private National Socialism&rdquo

4. The Greek Origin of Science

5. Holy Earth

6. Polemos

7. “All that is Great Stands in the Storm&rdquo

8. A Letter

Notes

4 Origins

1. Roots

2. Disintegration and Renewal

3. Metaphysics and the Loss of Meaning

4. The Need for Art

5. The Origin of Metaphysics

6. Art as Origin

Notes

5 Art Work and Thing

1. TheWork of Art as a Thing

2. What is a Thing?

3. First Inadequate Answer: The Thing as Bearer of Properties

4. Second Inadequate Answer: The Thing as Object of Perception

5. Third Inadequate Answer: The Thing as Formed Matter

6. Looking to aWork of Art for an Answer

Notes

6 A Pair of Shoes

1. Peasant Shoes

2. A Willful Interpretation?

3. Seeing aWorld in a Pair of Shoes

4. The Being of Equipment

5. A “Happening of Truth”?

6. Beauty and Truth

Notes

7 Work and World

1. The Counterplay of World and Earth

2. The Self-Subsistence of the Work of Art

3. A Greek Temple

4. What Temple?

5. House of God and Gate of Heaven

Notes

8 World and Earth

1. On the Way to the

2. Heidegger’s “World&rdquo

3. Heidegger’s “Earth&rdquo

4. The Strife of Earth andWorld

5. The Place of Art in a “Needy Age&rdquo

Notes

9 The Essence of Truth

1. Art and Truth

2. The Meaning of “Truth&rdquo

3. Truth as Unconcealedness

4. “The Nature of Truth is Untruth&rdquo

5. Art as One Way in which Truth Happens

Notes

10 Truth and Art

1. Art and Techne

2. Craftsman and Artist

3. The Happening of Truth in Art

4. The Happening of Truth in the Founding of a State

5. The Happening of Truth in Faith

6. The Happening of Truth in Sacrifice

7. The Happening of Truth in Thought

Notes

11 Creators and Preservers

1. The Rift of World and Earth

2. TheWork of Art as Something Created

3. Creators and Preservers

4. Binding Freedom

5. Art as Origin of Creators and Preservers

Notes

12 Art Is Poetry

1. Poetry: The Essence of Art

2. Poetry and Poesy

3. The Creativity of Preserving

4. Art as the Origin of Truth

Notes

13 Conclusion: Epilogue and Addendum

1. The Riddle of the Beautiful

2. Art and Boredom

3. Hegel or Hölderlin?

4. Truth and Beauty

5. Three Final Thoughts

6. Coda: A Chinese Tale

Notes

Index