X—two shoes and a fountain: ecstasis, mimesis and engrossment in Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art

In this essay, I argue for three interpretative claims about the philosophical strategies and examples employed in the first of Heidegger’s three lectures on ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’. I argue that his initial response to a Van Gogh painting is intended to dramatize a confusion rather than to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mulhall, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019