The Relation of Art to Life in Heidegger’s Thought: Art as a Way of Salvation

The relation between art and life has always been a most important problem that philosophers have paid attention to. Martin Heidegger is one of the great philosophers that art has a central role in his thought, and so in this essay we explored the relation between art and life in his thought and by way of philosophical analysis, hermeneutics and discourse analysis attempted to find that what relation between art and life Heidegger believe in.Heidegger elevates art to a way of human salvation and believes that art can help us in the face of our existential problems. And, for him, this salvation can only be done by great art, that it can fulfill its responsibilities to human life.The second task of this essay was to discover and enumerate these tasks from the heart of Heidegger's philosophy of art. The art seems to have the following duties towards human life: opening the world, making it holy, understanding how to live, creating a people, freedom, taking it out of everyday life, making ontological differences, and giving birth to a meaningful world out of a meaningless and mysterious context.Finally, the third task we dealt with was how, in Heidegger's view, art could accomplish these tasks and in a sense save men. According to him, art can accomplish the tasks by thematizing, repeating, showing the other side of things, providing a passionate experience, paying attention to details, showing the simple and basic lines of the world and distancing oneself from things.