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5 - Heidegger’s Use of Poetry

from I - Literature and Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

By
Christopher Fynsk
Edited by
Andrew Benjamin
Andrew Benjamin
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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Summary

This chapter addresses Heidegger’s understanding of the relation between philosophy and poetry, inasmuch as each mode of saying has its source in language. Heidegger’s use of poetry has been the object of considerable critical scrutiny; he has frequently been accused of forms of misuse. However, any assessment of what Heidegger understands himself to be doing with the poetic text requires a grasp of his understanding of the notion of use itself (and with this the notion of relation). From this perspective, we have a more founded approach to Heidegger’s manner of thinking with and by way of poetry.

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Heidegger and Literary Studies , pp. 98 - 118
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Fynsk, Christopher. “El uso de la tierra.” In Heidegger y el arte de verdad, edited by Duque, Félix and Oteiza, Cathedra Jorge, 223–53. Cátedra Jorge Oteiza, 2005.Google Scholar
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