Heidegger and literary studies / edited by Andrew Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benjamin, Andrew E., editor.

Series:

Cambridge studies in literature and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Criticism and interpretation.

Heidegger, Martin.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only has he written about poetry, generations of poets have engaged his writings. And yet, for Heidegger poetry and literature are separate. An essential part of the project of this book therefore is to show how both the distinction and connection between literature and poetry is staged within Heidegger's thought. It offers Heidegger's perspective on a range of key themes, topics, poets, and writers, including Poetry and Poetics, Ancient Greek theatre and tragedies and then specifically Friedrich Hölderlin, Thomas Mann, Paul Celan, Euripides and Sophocles. As the Chapters comprising this book make clear, Heidegger's work remains indispensable for any serious engagement with either literature or poetry today.

Contents:

Heidegger's literary secret / Joseph Cohen

The event's foreign vernacular : Denken and Dichten in Heidegger / Krzysztof Ziarek

Shared habits : love, time and the Magic mountain in 1925 / Ben Morgan

From tool to poem : the emergence of the antagonism between technics and poetry in Heidegger's work / Justin Clemens

Heidegger's use of poetry / Christophe Fynsk

Heidegger and Sophocles : Antigone's Ethos of intimating and waiting / Sean Kirkland

Playing with shadows in Heidegger's reading of Greek tragedy : encountering Oedipus, Antigone, and (absent) Medea / Silvia Benso

Places of pain : Heidegger's reading of Trakl / Claudia Baracchi

The (im)possibility of homecoming : Heidegger, Celan, and the Aporia of language / Charles Bambach

Heidegger and Blanchot : "wherefore poets in time of distress?" (Holderlin, Rilke) / Leslie Hill

Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger : two distinct paths of the "conservative revolution" in Germany / Ingo Farin

Travels in Greece : Heidegger and Henry Miller

Holderlin's Heidegger, Heidegger's mourning / David Ferris.

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ISBN:

9781009071789 (ebook)

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