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Series:   Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger

Heidegger on Poetic Thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2024

Charles Bambach
Charles Bambach
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Dallas

Summary

One of the striking features of Heidegger's philosophical engagement concerns his privileging of poetry and poetic thinking. In this understanding of language as fundamentally poetic, Heidegger puts forward a different way to do philosophy. In this Element, the author places Heidegger's poetic thinking in conversation with Sophocles and Hölderlin as a way to situate his critique of global technology and instrumental thinking in the postwar years. This Element also offers a critique of Heidegger's efforts to arrogate poetic thinking to his own aim of a destinal form of German national self-assertion through poetry. Overall, the aim here is to show how crucial poetic thinking is to the way Heidegger understands philosophy as a radical engagement with language.
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Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger
Online ISBN: 9781009570565
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 02 January 2025

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Heidegger on Poetic Thinking
  • Charles Bambach, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Online ISBN: 9781009570565
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Heidegger on Poetic Thinking
  • Charles Bambach, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Online ISBN: 9781009570565
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