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WILLIAM McNEILL is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and cotranslator (with Nicholas Walker) of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin Heidegger. JULIA DAVIS is Research Associate at Whitman College and former Fulbright Fellow at Freiburg University.
Translators' Foreword | |
Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn | |
The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlin's hymnal poetry | |
Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the rivers | |
Review | |
The metaphysical interpretation of art | |
Holderlin's poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river | |
The river as the locality of human abode | |
Review | |
The rivers as ++vanishing++ and ++full of intimation++ in ++voice of the People++Review | |
The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality | |
The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time | |
Becoming homely as the care of Holderlin's poetry--the encounter between the foreign and one's own as the fundamental truth of history--Holderlin's dialogue with Pindar and Sophocles | |
The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles' Antigone | |
The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song)Review | |
The poetic dialogue between Holderlin and Sophocles | |
The meaning of(Explication of the commencement of the choral ode)Review | |
The uncanny as the ground of human beings. (Continued explication of | |
Review | |
Further essential determinations of the human being | |
Review | |
Continued explication of the essence of the | |
The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song)Review | |
The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene | |
The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words)Review | |
Continued discussion of the hearth as being | |
Becoming homely in being unhomely--the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy.Part Three: Holderlin's Poetizing of the Essence of The Poet as Demigod | |
Holderlin's river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles--a historical becoming homely in each case | |
The historically grounding spirit | |
Explication of the lines: ++namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source | |
The home consumes it | |
Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves | |
Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes | |
The besouler would almost be scorched++ | |
Poetizing the essence of poetry--the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river | |
The holy as that which is to be poetized | |
The rivers as the poets who found the poetic, upon whose ground human beings dwell | |
The poet as the enigmatic ++sign++ who lets appear that which is to be shown | |
The holy as the fire that ignites the poet | |
The meaning of naming the gods | |
Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descend | |
Concluding Remark--++Is There a Measure on Earth? | |
Editor's Epilogue | |
Translators' Notes | |
Glossary | |
English-German | |
German-English | |
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