Two, two, posts in one to stay within posting limit.
First, Chuck Grimes was talking a while ago about Russian high modernism. Among the many things I do is edit materials for an art dealer specializing in Russian art. As part of this I just proofread the new issue of the magazine on Russian art Pinokotheke, which is devoted to Russian-American artistic intersections, largely in the 20th century -- largely translations of articles written by Russian art critics and art historians. It has very enlightening articles on the Suprematists, Social Realism and Soviet cinema. I recommend checking it out if you can find it when it's published.
On to Heidegger! Ted writes:
--- Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:
> But often the "philosophy and art" he extols are
> those that make the
> sort of human doing described in the Nietzsche
> passages the
> "essential character" of human being, aren't they?
> As in his
> interpretation of the passage from Antigone.
Well, just in Introduction to Metaphysics (which I think is an overread text). Who are the artists Heidegger focusses on? Van Gogh. Hoelderlin. Rilke. Trakl. Celan. Not a very martial bunch of folks.
> >
> Junger didn't point to something like the
> composition of Macbeth as
> exemplifying authentic human doing, did he?
>
As I understand Junger, having only read the anti-Nazi novel On the Marble Cliffs and not the philosophicak stuff, he tended to look at the experience of being a trench soldier in WWI as the exemplar of authenticity, nay, glory.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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