Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living

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In December 2005 the Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics organised the first ever international conference in Australia on Martin Heidegger. The volume presents a general overview of the consequences of Heidegger’s philosophy for various disciplines, notably cultural studies, literary interpretation, aesthetic discourse, ethics, theatrical performance, film studies, philosophy and, more precisely, the history of philosophy. Introduction...Vrasidas Karalis 1. Heidegger and the Philosophy of Emancipation...Gianni Vattimo 2. Cutting Poets to Size – Heidegger, Hölderlin, Rilke...Anthony Stephens 3. Geography, Biology and Politics: Heidegger on Place and World...Jeff Malpas 4. Heeding Heidegger’s Way: Questions of the Work of Art...Elizabeth M. Grierson 5. The Pitch Black Night of Human Creation: Calling Heidegger’s Philosophy of Terror to Account...Peter Murphy 6. Martin Heidegger and the Philosophy of Negativity...Paolo Bartoloni 7. The Interpretation of Da-sein as a Transformative, Poetic and Ethical Being...Jane Mummery 8. Moods That Matter: Heidegger, Affect and Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”...Peter Williams 9. Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line and the Question of Heideggerian Cinema...Robert Sinnerbrink 10. Reflections on Heidegger’s Saying: “The way what is questioned essentially engages our questioning belongs to the innermost meaning of the question of being”...George Vassilacopoulos 11. Art, Truth and Freedom: Contemplating Heidegger’s Categorial Vision...Colin Hearfield 12. The Work and the Promise of Technology...John Dalton 13. The An-Denken of Existentialism: Vattimo’s Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living...Ashley Woodward 14. Martin Heidegger and the Aletheia of his Greeks...Vrasidas Karalis