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Book SynopsisExplores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work.
Trade ReviewLyon's study is a thorough and convincingly argued study... one that will undoubtedly provide the basis for future studies of the relationship between the poet Celan and the philosopher Heidegger. -- Mark Grzeskowiak Seminar: Journal of Germanic Studies 2008 Lyon's scholarship throughout is thorough, and well collected in this readable account. -- Richard Hamilton Philosophy in Review 2008
Table of ContentsPreface
1. The Repulsion and Attraction of Opposites
2. Approaching Heidegger: Celan Reads Being and Time, 1952-1953
3. "Connecting" with Heidegger, 1952–1954
4. Earliest Traces of Heidegger in Celan's Works, 1953–1954
5. Celan's Notebook on What Is Called Thinking and Introduction to Metaphysics, 1954
6. Doubts Grow and Problems Arise, 1954–1956
7. More Appropriations from Heidegger: The Principle of Reason, 1957
8. Drawing on and Withdrawing from Heidegger, 1958
9. Mounting Cognitive Dissonance, Growing Independence, 1959–1960
10. Heidegger as Catalyst: Celan Begins to Write His Own Poetics, 1959-1960
11. The Meridian: An "Implicit Dialogue with Heidegger," 1960
12. Descending into the "Loneliest Loneliness," 1960–1961
13. The Dialogue Continues: Heidegger Reads Celan's "Meridian," 1960-1961
14. "An Epoch-Making Encounter": Freiburg and Todtnauberg, 1967
15. "Todtnauberg" and Its Aftermath, 1967–1968
16. Heidegger's Thought and Language in Celan: Similarities, Affinities, Borrowings
17. Unresolved Contradictions: The Last Years, 1968-1970
18. A Conclusion of Sorts
Appendix: Celan's Known Readings of Works by Heidegger
Notes
Works Cited
Index
