Background Info.
What was Heidegger's occupation from 1915-1933?
What is: A philosophical professor at the University of Freiburg and the University of Marburg
The points brought up in Martin Heidegger’s “The Origins of the Work of Art” closely relate to what philosophical theory that gained traction in the mid-to-late 20th century?
What is existentialism?
This ancient Greek philosopher believed in ideal Forms that exist beyond the physical world, shaping Heidegger’s early interest in what is truly real.
Who is Plato?
In “The Origin of the Work of Art,” Heidegger argues that art is not merely a representation of reality but a way in which truth reveals itself. This “unconcealment” of truth refers to which Greek philosophical concept that Heidegger frequently revives?
What is aletheia (unconcealment)?
In 1925, a 35-year-old Martin Heidegger began what would be a four-year affair with a 19yr old student who later became a prominent philosopher herself
Who was: Hannah Arendt?
What did Heidegger originally pursue higher education for?
What is: theology and Jesuit seminary
According to Heidegger, time can be interpreted by individuals experiencing various dispositions. At the heart of all of these emotions is a unifying concept to the German term “Sorge,” which translates in English to, “______.”
What is care?
This German philosopher before Heidegger explored how human consciousness and experience shape understanding - his work helped inspire existentialism.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
Heidegger claims that art opens up a space where truth can appear. The artwork does this by establishing a “____” – a meaningful context of significance in which human beings dwell.
What is world?
True or False: Heidegger’s wife, Elfride, was entirely faithful during their marriage.
What is: false–one of his sons was not his but was raised as his own.
Following his ascension to rectorship at the University of Freiburg, one of his ideological beliefs shifted interpretations of his works and got him barred from publishing.
What is: Nazism?
Heidegger implies that art has the ability to access a part of this specific, self-secluding element, making people vulnerable to and appreciative of the sets of relations that exist around others. Typically, this element resists the dispersion or blending between any two individuals.
What is world?
This German philosopher explored how history and spirit (Geist) evolve, influencing Heidegger’s idea that Being changes over time.
Who is Hegel?
For Heidegger, art is not just a product but an event — a happening in which truth comes to presence through the tension between “world” and “earth.” He calls this event the “____ of truth.”
What is the happening (or event) of truth?
Heidegger enjoyed this culture’s food, beer, and wine. He was also known to wear their traditional peasant-style clothes, even at academic events
What is: Swabian (southern/southwestern Germany) culture?
In 1917, Martin married this prominent protestant woman and went on to have several extramarital affairs against her throughout his life.
What is: Elfride Petri
Heidegger frequently mentions the term “being” in his works. When one attempts to grasp this “being” and tries to analyze exactly what it is (whether that is being of the arts, the being of the human being, etc…) the type of philosophical concept they are participating in is…
What is ontology
This 19th-century philosopher urged a “re-evaluation of all values,” shaping Heidegger’s ideas about authenticity and confronting meaninglessness.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
In discussing the artwork, Heidegger famously analyzes Van Gogh’s painting of a pair of shoes. He uses this example to show that art reveals the truth of ordinary things by allowing them to be seen as they are in their world. This process is known as the setting-into-work of ____.
What is truth?
During the 1920s and 1930s, Heidegger (and occasionally his students as well) frequented the Alps to partake in this activity
What is: skiing.
Heidegger was drafted into World War 1, but instead of serving on the frontlines, he held this position.
What is: a meteorological service assistant (or postal clerk)?
This philosophical theory to Heidegger is not a practice of understanding a certain type of text or specific experience, but it is the understanding of what has already been understood: i.e. the secondary process of reanalyzing an interpretation, not the original process of interpreting something.
What is hermeneutics?
This Danish philosopher’s ideas about anxiety, choice, and living authentically inspired Heidegger’s exploration of human existence.
Who is Søren Kierkegaard?
Heidegger rejects the idea that art is valuable because of beauty or imitation. Instead, he believes art is where Being itself is disclosed. This marks a shift from aesthetics to what broader philosophical question?
What is the question of Being?
Heidegger spent much of his time in a hut located in this German mountain range.
What is: the Black Forest?