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Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry (Hardcover)
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Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry (Hardcover)
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This volume collects and translates Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's
studies of Heidegger, written and revised between 1990 and 2002.
All deal with Heidegger's relation to politics, specifically
through Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hoelderlin.
Lacoue-Labarthe argues that it is through Hoelderlin that Heidegger
expresses most explicitly his ideas on politics, his nationalism,
and the importance of myth in his thinking, all of which point to
substantial affinities with National Socialism. Lacoue-Labarthe not
only examines the intellectual background--including Romanticism
and "German ideology"--of Heidegger's uses and abuses of poetry, he
also attempts to reestablish the vexed relationship between poetry
and philosophy outside the bounds of the Heideggerian reading. He
turns to Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, as well as Paul Celan,
arguing for the necessity of poetry as an engagement with history.
While Heidegger's readings of Hoelderlin attempt to appropriate
poetry for mythic and political ends, Lacoue-Labarthe insists that
poetry and thought can, and must, converge in another way. Jeff
Fort provides a precise translation capturing the spirit and
clarity of Lacoue-Labarthe's writing, as well as an introduction
clearly situating the debates addressed in these essays.
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