This paper deals with an Auseinandersetzung between Werner Herzog’s anti-philosophical aesthetics and Martin Heidegger’s ontological anti-aesthetics on the basis of a shared assumption: the authentic goal of art is not beauty, but truth. After an overview on Herzog’s aesthetics as an ecology of image (§ 1), I will compare it with Heidegger’s thought on the topic of truth (§ 2). Although strong, the alethic affinity between Herzog and Heidegger is not an equivalence, as proved by a reference to Nietzsche’s vitalistic/voluntaristic interpretation of truth (§ 3). To explain their distance I will return to one of Western metaphysic’s topoi (Plato’s cave), which shows the persistence of a metaphysical character in Herzog’s work (§ 4).
Art and Truth, Art as Truth. Werner Herzog between Heidegger and Nietzsche (and Plato)
Agostino Cera
2022
Abstract
This paper deals with an Auseinandersetzung between Werner Herzog’s anti-philosophical aesthetics and Martin Heidegger’s ontological anti-aesthetics on the basis of a shared assumption: the authentic goal of art is not beauty, but truth. After an overview on Herzog’s aesthetics as an ecology of image (§ 1), I will compare it with Heidegger’s thought on the topic of truth (§ 2). Although strong, the alethic affinity between Herzog and Heidegger is not an equivalence, as proved by a reference to Nietzsche’s vitalistic/voluntaristic interpretation of truth (§ 3). To explain their distance I will return to one of Western metaphysic’s topoi (Plato’s cave), which shows the persistence of a metaphysical character in Herzog’s work (§ 4).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
