Original scientific paper
Forgetting in the Ground of Kitsch and Falling with Kundera and Heidegger
Saša Horvat
orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-8688
; Split, Croatia
Abstract
In this paper we will try to show relation between phenomenon of kitsch and phenomenon of falling (Das Verfallen) and through that the phenomenon of forgetting in everydayness of human life. The phenomenon of kitsch we shall analyse through the work of novelist Milan Kundera (1929–) and his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). We will try to show, with the help of method of comparison and synthesis, that Kundera’s view on kitsch as a phenomenon that helps forgetting the face of death gets its philosophical conformation in the phenomenon of falling introduced by Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) in his work Being and Time (1927). Finally, we will try to explicate, on the one hand, connections and interrelations of an art piece such as novel and a philosophical system through the mentioned phenomena. On the other hand, we will try to show that the phenomenon that comes into present through kitsch and falling is phenomenon of forgetting death. If kitsch and falling are something in human life that is closest and nearest, as Heidegger and Kundera claim, the leading question of our investigation is throwing itself before us: is forgetting death fundamental moment of everydayness?
Keywords
forgetting; death; kitsch; falling; everydayness; Martin Heidegger; Milan Kundera
Hrčak ID:
120140
URI
Publication date:
17.2.2014.
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