Description
One of the striking features of Heidegger's philosophical engagement concerns his privileging of poetry and poetic thinking. In this understanding of language as fundamentally poetic, Heidegger puts forward a different way to do philosophy. In this Element, the author places Heidegger's poetic thinking in conversation with Sophocles and Hölderlin as a way to situate his critique of global technology and instrumental thinking in the postwar years. This Element also offers a critique of Heidegger's efforts to arrogate poetic thinking to his own aim of a destinal form of German national self-assertion through poetry. Overall, the aim here is to show how crucial poetic thinking is to the way Heidegger understands philosophy as a radical engagement with language.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Hölderlin Between the First and the Other Beginning; 2. Hölderlin and the Task of Poetic Thinking; 3. Sophocles' Antigone: An Ethics of the Uncanny; 4. The Later Heidegger on Poetic Dwelling; Concluding.
