Heidegger on poetic thinking /
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 po...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 73 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1009570552 9781009570558 9781009570572 1009570579 |