English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Martin Heidegger

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Allan Pero

Document Summary

Response paper: write critical response about something read in class, short story, poetry, short scene. Poesis: a making process of something made. Poetry constructs worlds, greeks = art a skill as a result of learning in practice. Relationship to the earth, how we make sense of it, also detached from the earth. Heidegger: we as humans make a distinction between the earth and the world Humanity: on going quest to make sense of the relationship between the earth and the world as well as to each other. Kindness, graciousness= being humane (helping sustain fabric of community) Civilization is a paradox: two opposing different things at the same time. May make the everyday strange to us, makes it possible to see the extraordinary. We are not the masters of language; it tries to bring those things to our attention, bending language, capture truths about ourselves (lies). Art doesn"t imitate life; life imitates art