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Book SynopsisWithin the vast reception history of Martin Heidegger’s philosophical thought poets, novelists, and playwrights have occupied a central place. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives by tracing the manifold, often surprising ways in which Heideggerian concepts, motifs, and concerns have been taken up in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century. In their contributions, scholars from the Americas, Asia, and Europe explore intellectual constellations between Heidegger and selected literary figures such as John Ashbery, Julia de Burgos, Paul Celan, Elfriede Jelinek, and Velimir Khlebnikov.
The volume unveils the immense creativity that crystallizes in these poetic and literary traces and disseminations of Heidegger’s thinking. Hence, it points to new and fruitful ways to critically intervene in current philosophical and literary debates.
Table of ContentsVariations on a Theme of “Poetic Thinking”: An Introduction
Florian Grosser and Nassima Sahraoui
PART I: IN-BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Text, Exegesis, and Salvation
1 Heidegger and the Critics
Julia Ireland
2 Heidegger as Introduction to Talmud
Elad Lapidot
3 Reactionary Nostalgia: Badiou, Heidegger, and the Poets
Luca di Blasi
4 In the Outhouse of Being: What Satires Tell Us About Heidegger’s Philosophy
Dieter Thomä
Displacing the House of Being
5 “Beth—that is the House”: Paul Celan’s Hebrew Dwelling
Simone Stirner
6 Meridians of Truth: From Heidegger’s Geography of Being to Celan’s Topology of Language
Nassima Sahraoui
7 Handke’s Doubt: Slow Homecoming in Conversation with Heidegger
Florian Grosser
PART II: LITERARY RECEPTION POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Hölderlin and the Poetics of the States
8 “The Right to Be”: Stevens and Heidegger on Thinking and Poetizing
Frederick Dolan
9 “Victory Is an Illusion of Philosophers and Fools”: Heidegger, Faulkner, and the Ruination of the Proper
Benjamin Brewer
10 “The Gods are never quite forgotten”: John Ashbery’s Heidegger
Luke Carson
11 Heidegger’s Mistress? Meditations on Dasein in David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Tim Personn
Crossing the Boundaries of the Other: History, Time, and Silence
12 The Impossible Death of Julia de Burgos: Reading “¡Dádme mi número!” at the Limits of Da-sein
Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
13 Lezama Lima and the Resurrection of the Image (An Ontological Enigma)
Mauricio González
14 The Boundary of Ontological Time and its Crossing: ShūzōKuki’s Analysis of Japanese Poetry as an Unrealized Dialogue with Heidegger
Yohei Kageyama
15 Heidegger and Russian Revolutionary Nonsense
Jeff Love
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