In the 1950s and 60s; Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subjectmdash;a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition; a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger; a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena; and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillidamdash;he formulates his later aesthetic theory; a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies; these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world; a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein. Filled with illustrations of works that Heidegger encountered or considered; Heidegger Among the Sculptors makes a singular contribution to the philosophy of sculpture.
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