Heidegger

Martian Heidegger NathanMyatt

2.12.09

Art 508: Readings in Art TheoryUniversity of Idaho

Spring 2009Instructor: Marco Deyasi

Heidegger marks the end of traditional philosophy with the shift from the thinking beings to the Being.

Questioning the thinking of Plato, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Husserl.

Being in Time

The underlining flaw Heidegger identified continues thought-out philosophy

“Fundamental mystery of life is that something exists, rather then nothing, that is the world” Heidegger (32)

The world exists

If there was no world we would not exist

We exist only because the world does

The world allows us to be

The Being are entities of the world

Being: a base that allows us to come in to existence

beings: are the things in existence

Without the Being there is the Nothing

The absence of Being

beings make Being possible and without Being there is Nothing

We exist in-between the notion of Being and Nothing because we are time based.

We come into Being and we eventually die bringing us back to nothingness.

Being can’t be applied to an individual

What is Being how do we know it is there

Being can be questioned because of our awareness to the ability to ask the question

Having the ability to ask a question about Being means we have the ability to answer the question

Because of our abilities to question we are not just beings but a special type

which is a type of being, a human-beingtranslates to the being-there.

Dasein

Thrown-ness

Dasein is defined by the world in which it is part of

shaped by our culture and everything is ‘learned’

no one is an individual

Never breaking the cultural influence

no human nature

understanding of behavior according to the culture.

Shapes the behavior of the Dasein.

It’s like that perfect model we strive for as people in certain cultures.

the One / the They

3 types of existence:

Undifferentiated Inauthentic Authentic

being-toward-death

anxiety

Fallen-ness

Technology

everything exists for us

Even other people

“all the beings in the world, everything in the world, are seen as something there for us to consume and use…including other people”

Art

“The Origin of the Work of Art”

Art does what technology cannot

Interconnectedness with things

Allow us to appreciate the things that exist

Existence enters the entire world around the individual

Extended back words to include Heidegger

Heidegger argued that he was not an existentialist

Existentialism

Influenced

ExistentialistJean-Paul SartreMaurice Merleau-Pony

Theologians Rudoilf Karl BultmannPaul Tillich

Philosophical HermeneuticsHans-Georg Gadamer

Poststructuralists Michael Foucault Jecques Derrida

Others Ludwig Wittgenstenin

University of Freiburg, 1915 -1928

1927 Being in time (book)

1933 Became a member of the Nazi party

1928 succeeded Husserl as chair of Freiburg

1959 retired from the university

1976 died in Messkirch

Biography

Work cited