Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature Toward a Postmodern Literary Hermeneutics / edited by William V. Spanos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spanos, William V., Editor.

Contributor:

Spanos, William V.

Series:

Studies in Phenomenology and existential philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature).

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Hermeneutics.

Heidegger, Martin.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger Martin--Ästhetik--Hermeneutik.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource xix, 327 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1979

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1979, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For half a century, Martin Heidegger's philosophical thought has been a towering—even revolutionary—presence on the European scene, yet in the United States and England complete understanding of his enormous importance is still limited. The essays in this volume constitute the first systematic effort to relate the applicability of Heidegger's hermeneutic thought and practice to questions concerning the nature and function of language, the interpretation of literary texts, and the "crises of criticism" central to the postmodern situation. Distinguished philosophers and literary critics address themselves to these issues in the context of the poetics of New Criticism—which they collectively call into question—and in light of the spirited dialogue between proponents of the new currents of hermeneutic and critical thinking—phenomenological, structuralist , deconstructionist —that are vying to replace New Criticism. The volume includes Heidegger's essay "The Age of the World View," translated by Mar jorie Grene; a photographic essay by Donald Bell; and contributions by Stanley Corngold, Frances C. Ferguson, Michael Gelven, Karsten Harries, Albert Hofstadter, David Couzens Hoy, David Farrell Krell, Donald G. Marshall, Richard E. Palmer, Joseph N . Riddel, Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Reiner Schiirmann, Armand Schwerner, William V. Spanos, and Gerry Stahl.

Contents:

Martin Heidegger and the question of literature : a preface / William V. Spanos

The age of the world view / Martin Heidegger (trans. by Marjorie Grene)

Enownment / Albert Hofstadter

Art and truth in raging discord : Heidegger and Nietzsche on the will to power / David Farrell Krell

The owl and the poet : Heidegger's critique of Hegel / David Couzens Hoy

The postmodernity of Heidegger / Richard E. Palmer

Heidegger : a photographic essay / Donald Bell

Sein und Zeit : implications for poetics / Stanley Corngold

Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and the hermeneutic circle : towards a postmodern theory of interpretation as dis-closure / William V. Spanos

Three poems / Armand Schwerner

Language and silence : Heidegger's dialogue with Georg Trakl / Karsten Harries

Situating Rene Char : Hölderlin, Heidegger, Char and the "there is" / Reiner Schürmann

"The being of language and the language of being" : Heidegger and modern poetics / Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Heidegger and tragedy / Michael Gelvin

From Heidegger to Derrida to chance : doubling and (poetic) language / Joseph N. Riddel

Reading Heidegger : Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man / Frances C. Ferguson

The ontology of the literary sign : notes toward a Heideggerian revision of semiology / Donald G. Marshall

Attuned to being : Heideggerian music in technological society / Gerry Stahl.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05547-4

OCLC:

1259584446