says Daniel:
> I like the Heideggerean notion of the happening of truth in works of art.
> On this view there are many "truths", as many as the number of different
> lights things can convincingly be seen in (it is, e.g., hard to depict
> Hitler as open minded). The artist chooses to represent his subject matter
> in a certain light (e.g. Spielberg showing the Israeli targeted assassins
> in a largely positive light in "Munich"), and is sometimes inclined to make
> truth claims about his slant on things (as Spielberg did in defending his
> film). But it strikes me that this is only his perspective on those
> events, and one of several potentially valid ones at that..
Yes, but Heidegger is speaking of the aletheia of the early greek thinkers
in which he translates truth (aletheia) as disclosure or uncovering which
does not refer to what is disclosed or uncovered but the very disclosing
itself, and yes, thus a happening and not a statement (apart from the very
stating of the statement). In this one might say that the play of showing
and hiding that occurs in film is the very stuff of truth in aletheia; but
for most, truth happens as this or that truth and not truth its self. These
two notions of truth (as a truth and as the essence of truth) strongly
implicate each other. The extraordinary difficulty for discursive speech to
speak of happening as opposed to what happens means that film (and music)
can perhaps better reveal happening-qua-happening... perhaps as the passing
of time if nothing else?
regards
michaelP
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