Artistieke oorsprong en oorspronklikheid

Abstract

The current worldwide management mania, which also manifests at South African universities, is insensitive towards the creation of a space where the “desire for the unknown” can be pursued. In this article I argue that the art and the writing of the Continental intellectual tradition created such a space in an exemplary manner. The main aim of this article is to assist us to keep this space open by refreshing our memories about the manner in which two leading figures of that tradition, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Martin Heidegger (1888-1976), wrote this space into consciousness. They accomplished this by scrutinising metaphoric artistic play between the past and the present, between origins and originality.