Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling

In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger increasingly turned his attention to sculpture, a medium through which he rethought the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts and speeches on the subject-a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and his own collaboration with Eduardo Chillida-he formulates the core of his later aesthetic theory...