Heidegger on Art and Art Works (Hardcover)

I. Some Observations on the History of Aesthetics and on the Manner in which Heidegger Has Tried to Retrieve Some of its Essential Moments.- 1. Introduction. Aesthetics: The Discipline and the Name.- I. The Classical Conceptions of Beauty and Art.- 2. Plato's Conception of Beauty and Art.- 3. From Aristotle to the Middle Ages.- 4. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.- a) Medieval Aesthetics. Aquinas.- b) The Renaissance.- II. Modern Aesthetics.- 5. Baumgarten, Burke, and Herder.- a) Rationalism. Baumgarten.- b) Empiricism. Burke.- c) Romanticism. Herder.- 6. Kant and Goethe.- III. Hegel.- 7. Hegel's Aesthetics. Aesthetics and Art History.- 8. On Beauty and Art in Hegel.- 9. The Beauty of Art and its Particular Forms.- IV. The Century after Hegel.- 10. Richard Wagner.- 11. Nietzsche's Concern with Aesthetics.- a) Nietzsche's Metaphysics. Will-to-Power. The Basic Questions of Philosophy.- b) Five Basic Theses on Art and their Implication.- 12. Nietzsche on the Essence of Art.- a) On Rapture (Rausch).- b) Rapture and the Form-Creating Force.- c) Art in the Grand Style.- d) On Truth and Art.- 13. Neo-Kantianism and the Hermeneutic Tradition.- II. Heidegger's "On the Origin of the Work of Art".- I. Introductory Reflections. - The Historical Context of the Lectures. - Their Subject Matter and Method.- Art. I. The Historical Context and the Character of the Lectures.- 14. The Historical Context of the Holzwege Essay on Art.- a) From Being and Time to "The Origin of the Work of Art".- b) The Epilogue and its Implications.- 15. How Is Heidegger's Essay on the Art Work to Be Interpreted?.- Art. II. The Subject Matter and the Method of the Lectures.- 16. Origin and Coming-to-Presence. Hermeneutic Phenomenology.- a) Origin and Coming-to-Presence. - The Question of Method.- b) Destructive Retrieve.- c) Phenomenology: The Method of Ontology.- 1. Phenomenon.- 2. Apophantic Logos and Truth.- 3. The Preliminary Conception of Phenomenology.- d) Hermeneutic Phenomenology.- 17. The Hermeneutic Circle.- a) From Work to Art and from Art to Work. The Circle.- b) Understanding, Interpretation, and the Hermeneutic "As".- c) The Hermeneutic Circle in Being and Time.- d) The Circle in Hegel and Heidegger.- II. The Thing and The Work.- Art. I. The Ontological Question Concerning the Thing-Being of the Thing.- 18. The Art Work Does Have a Thingly Character.- a) Art Works Are Things.- b) Traditional Interpretations of the Thing-Being of the Thing.- 19. Toward the Genuine Origin of the Hylemorphic Structure. - Retrospect.- a) Equipment between Thing and Work.- b) Retrospect on the Critical Reflections on the Three Thing-Conceptions.- Art. II. From Equipment to Work of Art.- 20. Elucidation of the Equipment-Being of Equipment by Means of a Work of Art.- a) A Pair of Farmer's Shoes as an Example of a Piece of Equipment.- b) The Illumination of the Equipment-Being of Equipment with the Help of an Immediate Experience with a Work of Art: van Gogh, Schapiro, Derrida.- 21. The Truth Establishes Itself in the Work.- a) Reliability and the Hylemorphic Structure.- b) The First Characterization of the Work-Being of the Work: In It the Truth Establishes Itself. On the Essence of Art and the Artistically Beautiful.- c) Summary and Prospect.- III. Art Work and Truth.- Art. I. Some Essential Characteristics of Art Works.- 22. How to Unfold the Essential Characteristics of Works of Art?.- a) The Art Work Stands on Its Own (Eigenstandigkeit).- b) The Coming-to-Pass of the Truth of Beings in a Greek Temple.- 23. The Setting-Up and the Opening-Up of a World.- 24. The Second Characteristic of the Work-Being of the Work. - The Unity of the Two Essential Characteristics.- a) The Making-Present of the Earth.- b) The Intimacy of the Battle between World and Earth.- Art. II. The Coming-to-Pass of the Truth in the Work of Art.- 25. Heidegger's Conception of the Essence of Truth.- 26. Truth as Correspondence and Truth as Non-Concealment. Truth and Work.- a