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Heidegger's Philosophy of Art

By Julian Young

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521791766, 9780521791762
LCC
B3279.H49 Y683 2001
Google Books ID
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Open Library ID
OL23241442M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7830024 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
193\193
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book, the first comprehensive study in English of Heidegger's philosophy of art, starts in the mid-1930s with Heidegger's discussion of the Greek temple and his Hegelian declaration that a great artwork gathers together an entire culture in affirmative celebration of its foundational 'truth', and that, by this criterion, art in modernity is 'dead'. His subsequent work on H?lderlin, whom he later identified as the decisive influence on his mature philosophy, led him into a passionate engagement with the art of Rilke, C?zanne, Klee and Zen Buddhism, liberating him not only from the overly restrictive conception of art of the mid-1930s but also from the disastrous politics of the period. Drawing on material hitherto unknown in the anglophone world, Young establishes a new account of Heidegger's philosophy of art and shows that his famous essay 'The Origin of the Work of Art' is its beginning, not its end.

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