Aletheia
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Aletheia or Alethia is truth or disclosure in philosophy. Originating in Ancient Greek philosophy, the term was explicitly used for the first time in the history of philosophy by Parmenides in his poe
A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world. Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.
"The Origin of the Work of Art" is an essay by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Heidegger drafted the text between 1935 and 1937, reworking it for publication in 1950 and again in 1960. Heideg
Aletheia
…concept in his Introduction to Metaphysics. For more on his understanding of aletheia, see Poetry, Language, Thought, in particular the essay entitled The Origin of the Work of Art, which describes the value of the work of art as a means to open a "clearing" for the appearance of things in the world, or to disclose their meaning…
Cover of the 1960 German edition
A Pair of Shoes (1885), by Vincent van Gogh