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THE TURN FROM ART TO LIVING: M. HEIDEGGER’S POETIC PHILOSOPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ANCIENT GREEK CONCEPTS OF MIMESIS (ΜIΜΗΣΙΣ) AND POIESIS (ΠΟIΗΣΙΣ)

Abstract
The article analyzes the transformation of Heidegger’s late thought on art and poetry. It is assumed that in the 1950s Heidegger’s concept of poiesis (ποίησις) is freed from the Aristotelian context: poiesis as a work of art constructed according to the mimetic principle (μίμησις) is replaced by poiesis as a way of thinking and living. Language itself in its pra-poetic function and life in its “mystical” characteristics come to the fore. In Heidegger’s late philosophy, the moment of difference between being and beings is important for poetry as an event of language. Poetry is lived as an experience of “displacement”, and not a moment of contemplation of the truth of being-here (Dasein) and the fullness of being (Seyn). The event allows this “displacement” to come true. The language itself is formulated as possible (Vermögen) due to the concealment of being and as something that enlighteningly preserves concealment and difference without the possibility of contemplating them in the stable form of a work of art. It is assumed that Heidegger’s late thought on the essence of poiesis (ποίησις), associated with techne (τέχνη), physis (φύσις), episteme (ἐπιστήμη) and poetry, is close to Plato’s thought. The author believes that in the terminological aspect there is a more obvious connection between Heidegger and Plato (since Plato explicitly speaks of the connection between nature, human creativity and thinking in the divine creation of being) than even with the Pre-Socratics. It is precisely Platonic thought that leads to such an understanding of poiesis that reconciles the creation of nature itself, the creation of man and thought, so that the poet becomes the one who allows language to be expressed, being — to be concealed, while he contributes to the formation of the being of beings.

Keywords
poetry, mimesis, Heidegger, art, event, Plato, Aristotle, dwelling.

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