Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hölderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hölderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements in Hölderlin's poetics, such as a Kantian understanding of aesthetic subjectivity and a commitment to Enlightenment ideals. These elements, she argues, resist the more politically distressing aspects of Heidegger's interpretations, including Heidegger's nationalist valorization of the German language and sense of nationhood, or Heimat.
In the context of Hölderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei draws a different model of poetic subjectivity, which engages Heidegger's later philosophy of ... Read more
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Reviews for Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein
-Nicholas Birns New School University "The perennially interesting complex of topics
Heidegger's thought, Holderlin's thought and poetry, Heidegger's reading of Holderlin's poetry
is here enriched by a fourth meditation, written against ... Read more