Martin Heidegger

Hölderlin's Hymn the Ister

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Produktbeschreibung

Readings of Germany's leading Romantic poet by Germany's foremost 20th-century philosopher

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Continental Thought
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780253330642
• ISBN-10: 0253330645
• Artikelnr.: 21852205

Autorenporträt

William McNeill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and translator (with Nicholas Walker) of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin Heidegger. Julia Davis is Research Associate at Whitman College and former Fulbright Fellow at Freiburg University.

Inhaltsangabe

Translators' Foreword Part One: Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn 1. The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlin's hymnal poetry 2. Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the rivers Review 3. The metaphysical interpretation of art 4. Holderlin's poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river 5. The river as the locality of human abode Review 6. The rivers as "vanishing" and "full of intimation" in "voice of the People" Review 7. The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality 8. The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time 9. Becoming homely as the care of Holderlin's poetry
the encounter between the foreign and one's own as the fundamental truth of history
Holderlin's dialogue with Pindar and Sophocles Part Two: The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles' Antigone 10. The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song) Review 11. The poetic dialogue between Holderlin and Sophocles 12. The meaning of (Explication of the commencement of the choral ode) Review 13. The uncanny as the ground of human beings. (Continued explication of Review 14. Further essential determinations of the human being Review 15. Continued explication of the essence of the 16. The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song) Review 17. The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene 18. The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words) Review 19. Continued discussion of the hearth as being 20. Becoming homely in being unhomely
the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy. Part Three: Holderlin's Poetizing of the Essence of The Poet as Demigod 21. Holderlin's river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles
a historical becoming homely in each case 22. The historically grounding spirit. Explication of the lines: "namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source. The home consumes it. Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves. Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes. The besouler would almost be scorched" 23. Poetizing the essence of poetry
the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river. The holy as that which is to be poetized 24. The rivers as the poets who found the poetic, upon whose ground human beings dwell 25. The poet as the enigmatic "sign" who lets appear that which is to be shown. The holy as the fire that ignites the poet. The meaning of naming the gods. 26. Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descend Concluding Remark
"Is There a Measure on Earth? Editor's Epilogue Translators' Notes Glossary English-German German-English