Heidegger-The Origin of the Work of Art.pdf

inguistic work. In the tragedy nothing is staged or displayed theatrically, but the battle of the new gods against the old is being fought. The linguistic work, originating in the speech of the people, does not refer to this battle; it transforms the people’s saying so that now every living word ?ghts the battle and puts up for decision what is holy and what unholy, what great and what small, what brave and what cowardly, what lofty and what ?ighty, what master and what slave (cf. Heraclitus, Fragment 53). In what, then, does the work-being of the work consist? Keeping steadily in view the points just crudely enough indicated, two essential features of the work may for the moment be brought out more distinctly. We set out here, from the long familiar