Foundation and poetry: Heidegger as a reader of Hölderlin

• Authors: Brencio Francesca
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Around 1930, Martin Heidegger approached Hölderlin’s poetry, welcoming his solicitations and hints in order to redeem the experience of the usage of language after the linguistic interruption of Being and Time that showed him the poverty of metaphysical language. Linguistic poverty is closely linked to metaphysical poverty and to the historical and destiny-related impossibility to grasp Being. From the 1930s onwards, the issue concerning the sense of Being becomes for Heidegger an issue concerning the sense of language. Heidegger appears to be “employing” Hölderlin, subordinating his philosophical intuitions to the gears of ontology. Thus, in Heidegger’s meditations, Hölderlin’s merit is outlined as the intuition of the outcome of Western metaphysics in terms of the extreme oblivion of Being and the rambling of thinking, foreseeing the end of an era and introducing the dawn of a second beginning: the one of poetizing thinking.

Keywords

EN

Heidegger Martin; Hölderlin; poetry; Christ; German idealism; madness

PL

Heidegger Martin; Hölderlin; poezja; Chrystus; idealizm niemiecki; szaleństwo

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia Philosophiae Christianae
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 49
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 181-200

Contributors

author

Brencio Francesca

• University of Western Sydney, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, ul. Locked Bag 1797, NSW 2751 Penrith, Australia