Phenomenological Reviews

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Art, world and the problem of aesthetics

Mark Sinclair

pp. 168-191

Abstract

The preceding chapter of this study showed that although the discovery of earth leads Heidegger initially to take a critical stance towards Aristotle's hylo-morphism, this discovery nevertheless leads to a positive appropriation of the Stagirite's thinking. Heidegger's conception of earth draws from and appropriates Aristotle's determination of hule as the possible in showing how the latter is not yet what it will become in the Latinate tradition. Examining how the discovery of earth is implicated in a retrieve of Aristotle, however, leads us to a final question, one which concerns Heidegger's conception of world: is it in any sense possible to appropriate positively Aristotle's thinking with a conception of world in relation to the work of art?

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Sinclair Mark (2006) Heidegger, Aristotle and the work of art: poeisis in being. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 168-191

DOI: 10.1057/9780230625075_7

Full citation:

Sinclair Mark (2006) Art, world and the problem of aesthetics, In: Heidegger, Aristotle and the work of art, Dordrecht, Springer, 168–191.