Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

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.

List 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.

Summary

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.

Foreword

Explores Heidegger's new form of 'poetic thinking' as a way out of the cul-de-sac of modern calculative thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bambach, Charles (University of Texas At Dallas) Bambach
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009570572
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0957057-2
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800