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Heidegger’s understanding of the role of art is that it opens up a clearing where objects or structures fall away from their everyday meanings and uses, opening up a different world. The artwork thematizes the world explicitly for a people who already understand it implicitly. The artwork brings the implicit background of the world into the open, and makes it manifest. Heidegger sought to breathe new meaning into the philosophy of art by reorienting the work of art as one aspect of his analysis of a theory of truth, as a process of unconcealing meaning and, I will argue, opening up a path for ethics.
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Lack, A. (2014). From Art to Ethics. In: Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137487452_4
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