THE QUESTION LACKING AT THE END OF ART: DANTO AND HEIDEGGER

From: Philosophy Today | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Arthur Danto's influential "end of art" thesis argues that art relinquishes responsibility for answering the question "What is art?" and that as a consequence the question of what art is, is passed to philosophy to answer. But in spite of the fact that Danto attaches a great deal of weight to the terms "question" and "answer," neither he nor his many commentators have explicitly addressed what exactly is meant by them. Danto takes these important terms for granted, despite likening the way in which art raises the question of its identity to Heidegger's account of Dasein as self-questioning. ...

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