Martin Heidegger, Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes [Philosophies of Art and Beauty]

Ellis Dye (Macalester College)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

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Philosophy (any)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1960

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Germany (Country of Origin)

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Treatise

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Several versions of Martin Heidegger’s “Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes” [“The Origin of the Work of Art”] were given as lectures in Freiburg, Zürich, and Frankfurt am Main in 1935-36. Heidegger did not publish the essay until 1950, as the first entry in the collection Holzwege [Paths in the Woods], but notes taken by auditors of these early lectures were distributed and discussed. According to Hans-Georg Gadamer, one of Heidegger’s most famous students, the lectures were “a philosophical sensation” and ventured an entirely “new concept” of art (p. 98) — art not as mimesis, or self-expression, or an array of aesthetic objects, but as the self-disclosure of truth.

Heidegger begins by acknowledging …

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Citation: Dye, Ellis. "Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 January 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20612, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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