Martin Heideggers 19341935 lectures on Friedrich H?lderlins hymns Germania and The Rhine are considered the most significant among Heideggers lectures on H?lderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career, the text illustrates Heideggers turn toward language, art, and poetry while reflecting his despair at his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for a more profound revolution through the German language, guided by H?lderlins poetry. These lectures are important for understanding Heideggers changing relation to politics, his turn toward Nietzsche, his thinking about the German language, and his breakthrough to a new kind of poetic thinking. First published in 1980 as volume 39 of Heideggers Complete Works, this graceful and rigorous English-language translation will be widely discussed in continental philosophy and literary theory.
[This translation], including a clear and concise introduction and useful glossaries, attains both accuracy and clarity, rarely faltering in its choice of words.
Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Holderlin's Question of Measure After Heidegger by David Kleinberg-Levin (Stanford University Press, 2005). ISBN 9780804750882.
Translators Foreword
Preliminary Remark
Introduction
? 1. Outline of the Beginning, Manner of Procedure, and Approach of the Lecture Course
Part One
Germania
Chapter One
Preliminary Reflections: Poetry and Language
? 2. Provisional Path of Approach to the Poem as a Piece of Text
? 3. Entering the Domain in which Poetry Unfolds its Power
? 4. Concerning the Essence of Poetry
? 5. The Question Concerning the We in the Turbulence of the Dialogue
? 6. Determining the We from out of the Horizon of the Question of Time
? 7. The Linguistic Character of Poetry
Chapter Two
The Fundamental Attunement of Poetizing and the Historicality of Dasein
? 8. Unfolding the Fundamental Attunement
? 9. Historical Time and Fundamentals*
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