Heidegger, Aristotle and the Work of Art

230 Pages·2007·0.7 MB·English

by  Mark Sinclair

Heidegger, Aristotle and
the Work of Art
Poiesis in Being
Mark Sinclair
Heidegger, Aristotle and the Work of Art
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Heidegger, Aristotle and
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Poiesis in Being
Mark Sinclair
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Abbreviations and Method of Citation vii
Introduction 1
Part I A Ground-laying of Greek Ontology
1 The Question of Being 19
2 Repeating Metaphysics: Heidegger’s Account of Equipment 47
3 Time and Motion 78
4 The Moment of Truth 111
Part II The Turn to the Work of Art
5 Art and the Earth 135
6 Art, World and the Problem of Aesthetics 168
Conclusion 192
Notes 196
Bibliography 212
Index 218
v
Acknowledgements
My thanks are due, above all, to Keith Crome at Manchester Metropolitan
University, whose persistence as a friend, reader and philosophical col-
league has greatly improved this book. I am also indebted to Ullrich
Haase, who commented on early versions of the work in his role as my
PhD supervisor and to Mike Garfield for his generous advice in matters
of Ancient Greek.
A version of Chapter 2 first appeared under the title ‘Heidegger’s
account of equipment in Being and Timeas metaphysics in its repetition’
in the Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2005.
Parts of the same chapter not included in this article have also been pub-
lished in French under the title ‘Science et Philosophie dans Etre et
Temps’ in Noésis, No. 10, Heidegger et les sciences (ed. M. de Beistegui and
F.Dastur), 2006.
vi
Abbreviations and Method
of Citation
I translate the titles of Aristotle’s texts, but they are cited according to
the standard pagination of the Bekker edition of the collected works
(Opera, Berlin, 1831–70). A list of the English editions upon which my
own translations are based are to be found in the bibliography. As a rule,
key Greek terms are introduced in Greek script, and subsequently
transliterated or translated except when they appear in citations of other
authors.
The titles of Heidegger’s texts are always translated in the text but
I refer primarily to the German editions in the references. The texts of
the collected works (Gesamtausgabe, Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am
Main) are cited with the letter G followed by the volume number of the
text, the page number and, if possible, the page number of the English
translation after a forward slash. I have often modified the translations,
and for the sake of brevity the English edition is not cited if it indicates
the pagination of the German edition. Concerning other French or
German texts, unless a reference to an English edition is provided the
translations are my own. I refer to the following volumes of the
Gesamtausgabe:
G3 Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik (1990). Kant and the
Problem of Metaphysics (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, trans. R. Taft, 1997).
G5 Holzwege (1994). Off the Beaten Track (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, trans. J. Young and K. Haynes, 2002).
G7 Vorträge und Aufsätze(2000).
G9 Wegmarken (1976). Pathmarks (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, ed. W. McNeill, 1998).
G13 Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens(1983).
G18 Grundbegriffe der aristotelischen Philosophie(2002).
G19 Platon: Sophistes (1992). Plato’s Sophist (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, trans. R. Rojcewicz and A. Schuwer, 1997).
G20 Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs(1979).History of the
Concept of Time(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, trans.
T. Kisiel, 1992).
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viii Abbreviations and Method of Citation
G21 Logik: Die Frage nach der Wahrheit(1976).
G22 Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie(1993).
G24 Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie (1975). The Basic
Problems of Phenomenology (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, trans. A. Hofstadter, 1988).
G26 Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz
(1978). The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, trans. M. Heim, 1992).
G29/30 Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt, Endlichkeit, Einsamkeit
(1983). The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, trans. W. McNeill and
N. Walker, 1995).
G31 Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. Einleitung in die Philosophie
(1982). On the Essence of Human Freedom: Introduction to
Philosophy(London: Continuum, trans. T. Sadler, 2002).
G33 Aristoteles: Metaphysik IX. Translated as Aristotle’s Metaphysics1
1–3 (1990). On the Essence and Actuality of Force (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, trans. W. Brogan and P. Warnek, 1995).
G39 Hölderlins Hymnen,Germanien “und, Der Rhein”(1980).
G54 Parmenides(1982).Parmenides(Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, trans. A. Schuwer and R. Rojcewicz, 1992).
G56/57 Zur Bestimmung der Philosophie (1987). Towards a Definition of
Philosophy(London: Continuum, trans. T. Sadler, 2000).
G55 Heraklit(1979).
G65 Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) (1989). Contributions
to Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, trans.
P. Emad and K. Maly, 1999).
G66 Besinnung(1997).
I refer to non-Gesamtausgabeeditions of Heidegger’s work (with the page
number of the corresponding English edition appearing, when both
possible and necessary, after a forward slash) according to the following
abbreviations:
EM Einführung in die Metaphysik, (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1987, 5th
edn). Introduction to Metaphysics (New Haven: Yale University
Press, trans. G. Fried and R. Polt, 2000).
ID Identität und Differenz (Pfullingen: Neske, 1957). Essays in
Metaphysics: Identity and Difference (New York: Philosophical
Library Inc., trans. by K. Leidecker, 1960).
Abbreviations and Method of Citation ix
NI Nietzsche – Vol. 1 (Pfullingen: Neske, 1961). Nietzsche – Vols I
and II (New York: Harper & Row, trans. D. F. Krell, 1991).
NII Nietzsche– Vol. 2 (Pfullingen: Neske, 1961). Nietzsche– Vols III
and IV (New York: Harper & Row, trans. D. F. Krell and
F. Capuzzi, 1991).
PIA Phänomenologische Interpretationen zu Aristoteles (Anzeige der
hermeneutischen Situation). I refer to a bi-lingual German/
French edition of this text: Interprétations Phénoménologiques
d’Aristote(Mauvezin: Trans-Europ-Repress, trans. J. F. Courtine,
1992). This edition reproduces the text in the Dilthey Jahrbuch
für Philosophie und Geschichte der Geisteswissenschaften 6
(1989). I refer to the first English translation of this text,
‘Phenomenological interpretations with respect to Aristotle’ in
Man and World25 (1992): 358–93, trans. Michael Baur.
S Schelling: Über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit (Tübingen:
Niemeyer, 1971). Schelling’s Treatise on Essence of Human
Freedom (Athens: Ohio University Press, trans. J. Stambaugh,
1985).
SG Der Satz von Grund (Pfullingen: Neske, 1957). The Principle of
Reason(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, trans. R. Lilly,
1991).
SZ Sein und Zeit(Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1984, 15th edn). Being and
Time(Oxford: Blackwell, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson,
1995).
UK1 ‘Vom Ursprung des Kunstwerkes: Erste Ausarbeitung’ in
Heidegger Studies, Vol. 5, 1989, 5–22.
UK2 ‘Vom Ursprung des Kunstwerkes/De l’origine de l’oeuvre d’art’
(Paris: Authentica, 1987).
UK3 I refer to the Gesamtausgabeedition [G5] of ‘Der Ursprung des
Kunstwerkes’ in this way. I cite the translation of the essay in Off
the Beaten Trackafter the forward slash but I do not always follow
it word for word, and I rely heavily on the those of D. F. Krell in
Basic Writings(London: Routledge, 1995) and of A. Hofstadter
inPoetry, Language, Thought(New York: Harper & Row, 1971).
VS Vier Seminare (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann,
1977).
WHD Was Heißt Denken?(Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1954). What is Called
Thinking? (New York: Harper & Row, trans. F. Wieck and
J.Gray, 1972).
ZSD Zur Sache des Denkens(Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1976).