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Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister"

By Martin Heidegger

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780253330642, 0253330645
LCC
PT2359.H2 A74334 1996
Open Library ID
OL814689M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3151107 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
200\99
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of "the political" and "the national," in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding "one's own" in and through a dialogue with "the foreign." In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the "ode to man," is a key feature of the course.

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