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- Title
The Myth of Poetry: On Heidegger's "Höderlin."
- Authors
Grossmann, Andreas
- Abstract
This paper examines the features of Martin Heidegger's specific intellectual relationship to the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin. Not the very least among Heidegger's motives are the political implications that were involved in the relationship. When Heidegger explicitly addresses Hölderlin's hymns "Germanien" and "Der Rhein" in the 1930s, it may be his first expression of a dissociation from his own political commitment as well as from official National Socialism. Thought and poetry accordingly prove to be in mutual reference to each other. The speaking of language as experienced in poetry can be exemplary for Heidegger's thinking inasmuch as it uncovers what has not been thought of in the metaphysical tradition. The myth of Hölderlin's poetry has its echo in an eschatology of being while the myth of Heidegger's "Hölderlin" is not free of political innocence.
- Subjects
GERMANY; HEIDEGGER, Martin, 1889-1976; HOLDERLIN, Friedrich, 1770-1843; POETRY (Literary form); PHILOSOPHY; NATIONAL socialism &; literature
- Publication
Comparatist, 2004, Vol 28, p29
- ISSN
0195-7678
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/com.2004.0000