Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

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This Element places Heidegger's poetic thinking in conversation with Sophocles and Hölderlin to situate his critique of global technology and instrumental thinking in the postwar years. It 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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

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.