Abstract

In the last part of The Truth in Painting named «Restitution», Jacques Derrida polemicizes with historian and art critic Meyer Schapiro, presenting for discussion the pages Heidegger dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings in the conference entitled «The Origin of the Work of Art». The article examines the occurrences of the word «truth» in Derrida’s text and evidences both the power and the limitations of some of the German phenomenologist’s suggestions.