Heidegger's Philosophy of Art

By Julian Young

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521616220
• ISBN13: 9780521616225
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"