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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp37207

Heidegger on Hölderlin’s Hymn Der Ister. The Dwelling of the Poet and the Place-Making of the River

Axel Onur Karamercan orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-1583-1520 ; Meudon, France


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Abstract

This article offers a topological account of Martin Heidegger’s 1942 lecture course on the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymn Der Ister. The main goal of the article is to explore the relationship between the poetic disclosure of place and the place of poetic disclosure in Heidegger’s thought in the 1940s. Firstly, the backward streaming of the river is identified as the central theme of the hymn, which leads to Heidegger’s idea of dwelling as poetic homecoming. Secondly, after elucidating the link between the Danube river and Antigone, and assessing the philosophical underpinnings of Heidegger’s withdrawal from politics, Heidegger’s pre-political idea of the polis is examined as tied to his thinking of place-making. Finally, the interplay between journeying and remaining is issued to clarify Heidegger’s notion of dwelling, time, and place and his critique of the metaphysical conception of space and time.

Keywords

Martin Heidegger; Friedrich Hölderlin; Der Ister; The Danube; place; poetic dwelling; topology of language

Hrčak ID:

303703

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/303703

Publication date:

29.12.2022.

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