Abstract

Heidegger: Historicity and the Question of Art analyzes the relation between the notion of existence and art in Heidegger's early work. The question of historicity emerges as the guiding concern of this work. It specifically focuses on the temporal conditions of the disclosure of truth and its articulations in the work of art. The dissertation gives textual analysis of the following works of Heidegger: Being and Time, "Origin of the Work of Art," and "Holderlin and the Essence of Poetry."