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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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From Heidegger to Dufrenne, and back

bildung beyond subject and object in art experience

Einar Rusten

pp. 213-228

Abstract

In this chapter, the author begins highlighting the tendency of an existing inherent divergence of ontological subjectivism and objectivism regarding the prevalent explanations of the source and origin of the various contents of aesthetic experience in general; i.e., not least often met upon as a dual tendency within one and the same particular body of thought. The claim is that we, through Martin Heidegger's way of rejecting the very premises for the construing of an ontological abyss between a subjective and an objective realm of world, including his related, special view on the ontology of art works, can achieve a new understanding of how the individual aesthetic experience comprises an aspect of knowledge. One implication is that the content of the experience takes on a certain uniqueness and unexchangeability in its long-term impact and consequences for the person in question. Thus, brought into the realm of educational philosophy as well, parts of the chapter moves within a frame of Bildung-thinking. This particular German-cultural situated tradition of educational and cultural philosophy being drawn upon, connections in human life between content-rooted momentous aesthetic experiences on the one hand, and longtime developments, knowledge, and enduring states of mind on the other, are highlighted to some degree.To a wide extent the chapter takes a general aesthetic theoretical point of departure, but musicological implications are taken into consideration as well. The inspiring sources are philosophic and aesthetic theoretical elements in works by Heidegger and Mikel Dufrenne, respectively, not least the Heideggerian thought of the artwork as a privileged place for experiencing anew being as such—a being which in reality lightens all the things, entities and other individual beings that we most often in a more or less somnambulistic way are dealing with in our daily world. And in this way, the artwork can also be a privileged place to open up anew the being that we ourselves are.

Publication details

Published in:

Pio Frederik, Varkøy Øivind (2015) Philosophy of music education challenged: Heideggerian inspirations: music, education and personal development. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 213-228

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9319-3_13

Full citation:

Rusten Einar (2015) „From Heidegger to Dufrenne, and back: bildung beyond subject and object in art experience“, In: F. Pio & Ø. Varkøy (eds.), Philosophy of music education challenged: Heideggerian inspirations, Dordrecht, Springer, 213–228.