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Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

Charles Bambach, University of Texas at Dallas
January 2025
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9781009570558

    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.

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    December 2024
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    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.
      Author
    • Charles Bambach , University of Texas at Dallas