Heidegger: Truth, Technology, and Poetry
- All levels
- 21 and older
- $315
- 30 Irving Pl, New York, NY
- 12 hours over 4 sessions
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore the realm of dreams through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, and the unconscious in this interdisciplinary course. Discover how dreams have inspired artists, writers, and theorists, shedding light on the nature of reality and our connection to others. Delve into the works of Freud, Benjamin, Coleridge, and more as you unravel the profound connections between dreams and waking life.
Apr 14th
2–5pm EDT
Meets 4 Times
Sometime in the early 1930’s, Heidegger’s thought is supposed to have undergone a change. His philosophical project shifted from the “fundamental ontology” of his early work Being and Time—foundational to the development of wartime and post-war “existentialism”—to what he would come to describe as Seinsgeschichte—a “history of being.” Heidegger was interested in understanding how the meaning of being, what it means to be, has changed throughout time.
In particular, Heidegger was concerned with uncovering the meaning of being within modernity, an era rocked by scientific, industrial and technological revolutions, in which the “gods have flown” from us (to paraphrase his favorite poet Hölderlin). In Heidegger’s view, modern technology in particular has begun to narrow and even empty the possibilities of meaningful existence, eclipsing and stultifying the power of art and poetry to reveal truth and constitute meaning within culture.
This class will take up these claims by surveying the major texts of Heidegger’s later period, including “The Origin of the Work of Art,” “The Question Concerning Technology,” “The Age of the World Picture,” “Why Poets?,” “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” and “The Thing.”
Among the questions we’ll explore are: What is the essence of humanity itself within modernity? What is the nature of modern mathematical science and technology, and what kinds of truths can and do they reveal? What happens to the truths that art and poetry once promised in an age when scientific truth alone is predominant? And what, if anything, can offer us any place or power to hope in such “desperate times?”
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The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research was established in 2011 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Its mission is to extend liberal arts education and research far beyond the borders of the traditional university, supporting community education needs and opening up new possibilities for scholarship in the...
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