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Book SynopsisHeidegger’s turn to poetry in the latter half of his career is well known, but his own verse has to date received relatively little attention. How can we understand Heideggerian poetics without a thorough reading of the poet’s own verse? Thought-Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heidegger’s collected works, where the reader can read the German version alongside the English text. Musical, allusive, engaged deeply with humanity’s primordial relationships, the Gedachtes or thought-poems here translated show Heidegger’s language at its most beautiful, and open new ways to conceive of the relationship between language and being.
Trade ReviewWalls' translation of Heidegger's Thought Poems (Gedachtes) will prove to be the most authoritative and illuminating commentary on and annotation to Heidegger's voluminous philosophical, discursive, and analytical work.... Walls' magnificent translation utterly transforms Heidegger's legacy from here on. Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
-- N. Lukacher, emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago * Choice Reviews *
Table of Contents Part I: Early Poems – Letters – Thought-Poems (1910 – 1975) / 1. Early Unpublished Poems and Letters 1910-1918 / 2. Thought-Poems 1945-46 / 3. Thought-Poems 1972-75 / Part II: From the Experience of Thinking / 1. On the Way Home / 2. The Ring of Beyng / 3. Shifts / 4. And so we are cautious / 5. Amo: volo ut sis / 6. Sonata Sonans / 7. Arrivals / 8. Beckonings / 9. Pages for “Beckonings” / 10. Be-ginning and Origin in the Claiming “from” Freydom / 11. From the Workshop / 12. The Cabin in the Evening / 13. Pindari Isthmia V, 1-16 / 14. Ήράκλειτος ὁ σκοτεινός / 15. Furrows / 16. Disturbed by withdrawn nobles / Part III: Thought-Poems for the Estate – Some Thinking / Part IV: Scatterings / Bibliography / Index
