Of an Alien Homecoming

Charles Bambach

Description

Few themes resonate as powerfully in Heidegger as those connected to homecoming, homeland, and Heimat. This emphasis plays out most powerfully in Heidegger's reading of Hölderlin and his turn towards language, art, and poetizing as a way of thinking through the poet's relevance in the epoch of homelessness and the abandonment of the gods. As the first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, Of an Alien Homecoming addresses the tension within Heidegger's work between his disastrous political commitments during the era of National Socialism and his attempts to open a path to a German future nurtured on Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling. Charles Bambach reads this work on Hölderlin from 1934–1948 in conversation with the Black Notebooks and Heidegger's metapolitics, even as he uncovers an ethical dimension within Heidegger that pervades his reading of poetry. Throughout all of these various stages on Heidegger's thought path, Hölderlin remains the poet who poetizes the possibility of finding our lost home amidst the homelessness brought about in the epoch of technological thinking.
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction
I. Hölderlin as a "Transition"
II. Philosophical "Andenken": Hölderlin as the Voice of the Other Beginning
III. Who is Heidegger's Hölderlin?
IV. Language, "Ethos," and the Ethicality of Being

1. Hölderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine"
I. "Hölderlin" and the Great War
II. Norbert von Hellingrath and the Hölderlin Myth
III. Heidegger and the "Secret" Germania
IV. Hölderlin without History
V. "The Rhine": Heidegger and Originary Springing Forth
VI. "Physis" as "Poiesis": Beyng as Poetic Event
VII. The Mystery of "das Reinentsprungene" and the Vocation of the Poet
VIII. The Beyng of the Demigods

2. Heidegger's "Remembrance" Lectures
I. Hölderlin and "The National"
II. A Metapolitics of the Volk
III. Staging the "Remembrance" Lectures: The Vestibule
IV. The Greeting of the Wind
V. Jews, Greeks, and the Occlusion of the First Beginning
VI. The Time of the Festival and the Graeco-German Beginning
VII. Festival, Equinoctial Time, and the Balance of Equilibrium
VIII. Heidegger's Destinal Politics of a German National Mission
IX. The Passage to the Foreign and the Journey Homeward

3. Heidegger's "Ister" Lectures: Ethical Dwelling in the (Foreign) Homeland
I. "Hölderlin" as the Name for an Other Beginning of Thinking
II. Dwelling in the Intimacy of Truth: Oppositional Harmony and the Böhlendorff Logic
III. Translation and the Uncanny Essence of Human Being
IV. Tragedy and the Definition of the Human Being as a "Katastrophe"
V. The Language of Contradiction: Oxymoron and Tragic Manifestation
VI. Poet and River as Demi-Gods
VII. "At home is spirit not at the beginning"
VIII. Of Time and the River: Naming, Reversal, and Historical Dwelling
IX. German Hospitality?

4. Historical Interlude: Heidegger in 1945–1946
I. Heidegger's "Kahlschlag": The Poverty of Thinking
II. Heidegger's Revenge: War-Guilt, Retribution, and the Politics of Ressentiment
III. Hölderlin, the West, and Destiny

5. Heidegger in Dialogue with Hölderlin: "The Western Conversation"
I. Heidegger's "Conversation" with Hölderlin
II. The Schwung from the First to the Other Beginning
III. The Opening of "The Western Conversation"
IV. The Ister as Fateful Site of an Ordeal
V. Hölderlin, Destiny, and the German Bequest
VI. Poetic Geography and Destinal History: The German Danube
VII. The Bread and Wine Fragment and German Destiny

Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Éthique et morale
• Philosophie moderne
• Philosophie moderne
• 20th Century
• Modern
• HISTORY
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Modern history
• General officer
• History of Europe
• General
• Germany
• Obermodern-Zutzendorf
• Europe
• Ethique et morale

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438488141
• Langue: English

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Of an Alien Homecoming
SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Dennis J. Schmidt, editor
Of an Alien Homecoming
Reading Heidegger’s “Hölderlin”
CHARLES BAMBACH
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Is there now, in these times, still something like a “home,” a dwelling, an abode? No, there are “dwelling machines,” urban clusters, in short: an industrialized product, but no longer a home.
––Martin Heidegger Four Seminars : 74
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction I. Hölderlin as a “Transition” II. Philosophical “Andenken”: Hölderlin as the Voice of the Other Beginning III. Who is Heidegger’s Hölderlin? IV. Language, “Ethos,” and the Ethicality of Being
1 Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine” I. “Hölderlin” and the Great War II. Norbert von Hellingrath and the Hölderlin Myth III. Heidegger and the “Secret” Germania IV. Hölderlin without History V. “The Rhine”: Heidegger and Originary Springing Forth VI. “Physis” as “Poiesis”: Beyng as Poetic Event VII. The Mystery of “das Reinentsprungene” and the Vocation of the Poet VIII. The Beyng of the Demigods
2 Heidegger’s “Remembrance” Lectures I. Hölderlin and “The National” II. A Metapolitics of the Volk III. Staging the “Remembrance” Lectures: The Vestibule IV. The Greeting of the Wind V. Jews, Greeks, and the Occlusion of the First Beginning VI. The Time of the Festival and the Graeco-German Beginning VII. Festival, Equinoctial Time, and the Balance of Equilibrium VIII. Heidegger’s Destinal Politics of a German National Mission IX. The Passage to the Foreign and the Journey Homeward
3 Heidegger’s “Ister” Lectures: Ethical Dwelling in the (Foreign) Homeland I. “Hölderlin” as the Name for an Other Beginning of Thinking II. Dwelling in the Intimacy of Truth: Oppositional Harmony and the Böhlendorff Logic III. Translation and the Uncanny Essence of Human Being IV. Tragedy and the Definition of the Human Being as a “Katastrophe” V. The Language of Contradiction: Oxymoron and Tragic Manifestation VI. Poet and River as Demi-Gods VII. “At home is spirit not at the beginning” VIII. Of Time and the River: Naming, Reversal, and Historical Dwelling IX. German Hospitality?
4 Historical Interlude: Heidegger in 1945–1946 I. Heidegger’s “Kahlschlag”: The Poverty of Thinking II. Heidegger’s Revenge: War-Guilt, Retribution, and the Politics of Ressentiment III. Hölderlin, the West, and Destiny
5 Heidegger in Dialogue with Hölderlin: “The Western Conversation” I. Heidegger’s “Conversation” with Hölderlin II. The Schwung from the First to the Other Beginning III. The Opening of “The Western Conversation” IV. The Ister as Fateful Site of an Ordeal V. Hölderlin, Destiny, and the German Bequest VI. Poetic Geography and Destinal History: The German Danube VII. The Bread and Wine Fragment and German Destiny
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all translations from the German are my own. SS Spring Semester WS Winter Semester
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Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1953. FS Four Seminars . Trans. Andrew Mitchell and Francóis Raffoul. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. G Gelassenheit . Pfullingen: Neske, 1988. GA Gesamtausgabe . Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1975 ff. GA 2 Sein und Zeit. Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1977. GA 4 Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung . Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1981. GA 5 Holzwege . Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1977. GA 7 Vorträge und Aufsätze . Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2000. GA 9 Wegmarken . Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2004. GA 10 Der Satz vom Grund. Ed. Petra Jaeger. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1997. GA 11 Identität und Differenz . Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 2006. GA 12 Unterwegs zur Sprache . Ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1985. GA 13 Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens . Ed. 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