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This volume traces the ways in which Heidegger’s philosophical thinking has been taken up, critically re-appropriated, and disseminated in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century.
List of contents
Variations on a Theme of "Poetic Thinking": An Introduction
Florian Grosser and Nassima Sahraoui
PART I: IN-BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Text, Exegesis, and Salvation
1 Heidegger and the Critics
Julia Ireland
2 Heidegger as Introduction to Talmud
Elad Lapidot
3 Reactionary Nostalgia: Badiou, Heidegger, and the Poets
Luca di Blasi
4 In the Outhouse of Being: What Satires Tell Us About Heidegger's Philosophy
Dieter Thomä
Displacing the House of Being
5 "Beth-that is the House": Paul Celan's Hebrew Dwelling
Simone Stirner
6 Meridians of Truth: From Heidegger's Geography of Being to Celan's Topology of Language
Nassima Sahraoui
7 Handke's Doubt: Slow Homecoming in Conversation with Heidegger
Florian Grosser
PART II: LITERARY RECEPTION POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Hölderlin and the Poetics of the States
8 "The Right to Be": Stevens and Heidegger on Thinking and Poetizing
Frederick Dolan
9 "Victory Is an Illusion of Philosophers and Fools": Heidegger,
About the author
Florian Grosser teaches in the College of the University of Chicago. His research interests lie in twentieth century continental philosophy, political and social philosophy, and aesthetics. He is the author of the monographs Revolution denken. Heidegger und das Politische 1919-1969 and Theorien der Revolution. Nassima Sahraoui is a researcher based in Germany. Her areas of research are political theory, history of philosophy, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. She is the author of Dynamis. Eine materialistische Philosophie der Differenz and is preparing another monograph on Forms of Resistance.Nassima Sahraoui is a researcher based in Germany. Her areas of research are political theory, history of philosophy, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. She is the author of Dynamis. Eine materialistische Philosophie der Differenz and is preparing another monograph on Forms of Resistance.
Summary
This volume traces the ways in which Heidegger’s philosophical thinking has been taken up, critically re-appropriated, and disseminated in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century.
