Ethical Theory & Phenomenology Part 2

Question 1

Heidegger terms to remember

Answer 1

thing (being)
equipment (use)
work (aletheia)
being/being
ground/earth/world
techne
art and poetry (poeisis)
language

Question 2

Heidegger’s key passage

Answer 2

"Origin of the Work of Art" (1930s)
– three modes of "thingness" (160)
– the artist (167)
– concealing unconcealment (175-176)
– poetry and/as language (184-185)

Question 3

Luce Irigaray terms

Answer 3

sexual difference
space
wonder
angels
mucous
lips
love

Question 4

Irigaray’s key passages

Answer 4

"Sexual Difference" from An Ethics of Sexual Difference  (1990s)
– A revolution in ethics (6)
– space or envelope (10)
– wonder (12-13)
– angels-mucous (16-17)

Glaspell’s Trifles

Question 5

Maurice Blanchot key terms and passages

Answer 5

desoeuvrement (worklessness)
community
love, lovers
recit (narrative calls attention to itself)
Blanchot talks about Marguerite Duras’ The Malady of Death – doing nothing, love, infinite relationship, community, obscurity, unworking

Question 6

Other thoughts from Heidegger discussion

Answer 6

Just jump into the “circle” on the way to philosophy
All things reveal each other in relation – “truth”
The unconcealedness of beings is “truth”
“Truth” is not an answer, it is a double concealment
Poetry is about art that allows truth to come into being
Through the “circle,” indirectness becomes more profound, most ordinary things we’ve forgotten – think about ordinariness
Heidegger – truth at the very heart of it is untrue – it’s a lie
Paradoxes speak to us because they are true but they can’t be true because they violate logic
Power comes from giving up power – unworking
Every work of art unworks itself and that’s what makes it art