2016 - 2017

0618-2746-01
  Martin Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art'                                                   
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Pioter ShmugliakovGilman-humanities304Sun1600-1800 Sem  1
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description
Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” (1935-36) is widely recognized as one of the most unique and important texts written about art in the 20th century. At the same time, its poetic style, idiosyncratic terminology, and hyperbolic claims, make it appear – even to some of its most sympathetic readers – as inspiring musings of a genius gone wild, rather than as a bearer of a coherent philosophical position. The close reading of “The Origin,” which the offered course undertakes, interprets it – contra this superficial impression – in most rigorous terms of a strong, systematic and well-supported position on a variety of issues in philosophical aesthetics: ontological specificity of artworks, the role of the critic, the nature of artistic creation, the importance of art, etc. The presupposition of the course is that this interpretative aim requires development and substantiation of “The Origin’s” relations to other Heidegger’s texts and themes. We shall therefore, alongside “The Origin”, read – in part or in whole – a few other Heidegger’s texts (as well as some Kant and Hegel). To understand Heidegger’s views on art we’ll need to pursue some of the most fundamental topoi of his thought: such as phenomenological method, historicity of Being, the essence of truth, the ends of philosophy, and others. In this regard, the course may serve as an introduction to Heidegger’s philosophy.

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