Did Heidegger believe that "the reception of the art work and what it may reveal comes from process not intuition or passive looking - but an engagement - that involves ones puzzling over the work - the process of making sense of it " ? (as Saul just wrote)
How much puzzling did Heidegger do regarding the Van Gogh painting? "The art work let us know what shoes are in truth" -- the "equipmental quality of equipment was discovered ..... only by bringing ourselves before Van Gogh's painting" and "it would be the worst self deception to think that our description had first depicted everything thus and then projected it into the painting" Got it ? No puzzling was required -- the painting explained itself. On the other hand -- regarding works made "that have been torn out of their own native sphere" (like the Aegina sculptures in Munich, or the best critical edition of Sophocles' Antigone) -- "the works are no longer the same as they once were" -- so their "work-being" is inaccessible "however high their quality and power of impression, however good their state of preservation, however certain their interpretation" Again - no puzzling is required -- because the answers are hopelessly lost. Puzzling is a feature of our contemporary artworld, which is quite distant from Heidegger's native sphere. ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find the right business program for you and take your career to the next level. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxP25fVP2fUNjcJFbhzO5e5Ey kHMNRnmiNm02J0M67g28B0nRslnNG/
