Apaeva A.Yu. Martin Heidegger about the phenomenon of space in art

Abstract: This scientific article represents a philosophical research of the notions of space and art. The author perform the explication of the phenomenon of space and its relation to art through the interpretation of a number of work by Martin Heidegger, namely one of his late essays “Art and Space”, in which attention is turned to the art of sculpture. A new method of interpretation of this Heidegger’s work is presented. In reconstruction of Heidegger’s ideas, the author determines a hermeneutic circle that is depicted with the references to the poetic expressions of Goethe. Thanks to the motion in this circle, the space of art is being comprehended as the space of creation (place), space of reception (area), and space of existence. For the clear understanding of the essence of space of art, Heidegger conducts a step-by-step destruction of the usual phenomenon to the initiate phenomenon. The authors followed the  revealed path of Heidegger’s thought. The true essence of space is discovered in the “protolanguage” of poetry, considered by Heidegger as art as a whole. In the word, Heidegger contacts with the matter itself, or it comes through the word in its form. This research is of theoretical importance due to revelation of such crucial notions as art, space, creature, place, and truth.

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