Истина и мигове. Или за същността на изкуството според Хайдегер и Бенямин
Truth and Instants, or, On the Essence of Art according to Heidegger and Benjamin

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the two key works of modern aesthetics – Martin Heidegger’s The Origin of the Work of Art (1935/1936) and Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (1936). The article offers a comparative analysis based on analogies between the Eurocentric philosophical background of the two authors and their direct or indirect references to the Asian way of thinking. I examine the content of the two works in order to emphasize Heidegger's ontological perspective in comparison with the empirical-historical character of Benjamin’s media theory, and then go on to indicate concrete similarities between Heidegger’s and Benjamin’s understanding of art, as well as between haiku-poetry and photography as one of the most typical forms of modern art.

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