H}}lderlin}}}s Hymn The Ister [Hardcover]

Martin Heideggers 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich H?lderlins hymn The Ister within the context of H?lderlins poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on H?lderlins dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heideggers thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of the political and the national, in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding ones own in and through a dialogue with the foreign. In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the ode to man, is a key feature of the course.

William McNeill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and translator (with Nicholas Walker) of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin Heidegger.

Julia Davis is Research Associate at Whitman College and former Fulbright Fellow at Freiburg University.

Translators Foreword

Part One: Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn
1. The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlins hymnal poetry
2. Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the rivers
Review
3. The metaphysical interpretation of art
4. Holderlins poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river
5. The river as the locality of human abode
Review
6. The rivers as vanishing and full of intimation in voice of the People
Review
7. The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality
8. The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time
9. Becoming homely as the care of Holderlins poetrythe encounter between the foreign and ones own as the fundamental truth l3&