TAILIEUCHUNG - HEIDEGGER AND METAPHYSICAL AESTHETICS

The second reason illustrates a more profound difficulty. The image of nonchalance is linked in perhaps subtle ways to power, and ethical aspects of its use. A challenging book, born out of a deep understanding of mostly western culture, is Robert Greene’s The concise 48 Laws of Power. In his preface (page xii) he states, “If like the courtier of times gone by, you can seduce charm, deceive and subtly outmaneuver (sic) your opponents, you will attain the heights of power. You will be able to make people bend to your will without them realizing what you have done | Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 1 No. 1 April 2004 Heidegger and Metaphysical Aesthetics Rufus Duits University College London Heidegger s most precise and extensive treatment of art is to be found in his 1935 essay The Origin of the Artwork1 This is however no work of aesthetics as traditionally conceived. The aim of this paper is to bring to light some of the fundamental differences between Heidegger s approach to art and the traditional approach and to do so within the context of Heidegger s project of what he calls overcoming metaphysics . As Heidegger sees it traditional aesthetics is metaphysical in essence. Therefore a part -indeed a crucial part - of the project of overcoming metaphysics is the development of a non-metaphysical and hence non-aesthetic approach to art. What does Heidegger mean by metaphysics Put briefly Heidegger uses this word to refer to on the one hand the particular and still current historical epoch of the Western world which began with the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece and on the other the particular way of thinking that fundamentally defines and determines this epoch. This way of thinking is characterised by a particular conception of truth and by the failure to raise what Heidegger calls the question of being . We shall not investigate Heidegger s reasons for attempting to overcome metaphysics in this paper and we shall be concerned with this attempt only insofar as it manifests itself in Heidegger s approach to art. Fundamentally claims Heidegger metaphysics in failing to philosophically thematise being as such has failed to understand what it is to be a being. Artworks whatever else they might be are beings. The crucial failure of aesthetics then according to Heidegger has to do with the understanding of what it is to be a being in the sense of an artwork. 1 Basic Writings Martin Heidegger ed. David Farrell Krell Routledge 1993 . 18 Rufus Duits This is to say that aesthetics has misunderstood the .

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