The Phenomenological Path of Art in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

Abstract

This article was guided by the following question: what is the role of art on language, truth and poetry, in the conception of philosopher Martin Heidegger? This question entails the need
to answer it. Speaking of art as a moment of revelation of Being forces us to speak of the poet and
poetic language, since art is intrinsic to human existence. The course followed by this work intends
to clarify one of the most important reflections of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, poetic language and the relationship between art and truth. The essay The Origin of the Work of Art (1935/36)
was exhibited for the first time in mid-1935/36, a period during which seminars were given that
fleshed out his work. Heidegger’s thinking about art and truth lead the author to a new direction in
his thinking that brought him closer to Hölderlin’s poems. We will explore Heidegger’s encounter
with the work of the poet Hölderlin, which for Heidegger is the path to thinking linked to the sense
of being, which will lead him to understand what poetic making means.