ABSTRACT
Like Gunnar Olsson, so also Plato was absorbed by the question of what it means to be human. Part of Plato's answer is built into the allegory of the cave presented in the Republic. What an impressive way of saying that to be human is to be trapped by one's own imagination. It was the sounding board that Martin Heidegger investigated in his studies of the Dasein, the place where being and time show themselves to be inseparable twins. Such experiences are what the artist creates in the room of aesthetics, the space that Sren Kierkegaard's Don Juan explored and the room in which Friedrich Nietzsche later declared that God is dead and that the of logical reason is nothing but a human invention. No walk would ever be possible were it not for the human faculty of imagination: imaginations stuck to the remembrance of place; to the map of space; and to the self-reference of face.
