num_pages: 308
description: Martin Heideggers 19341935 lectures on Friedrich Hlderlins hymns Germania and The Rhine are considered the most significant among Heideggers lectures on Hlderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career the text illustrates Heideggers turn toward language art and poetry while reflecting his despair at his failure to revolutionize the German university and his hope for a more profound revolution through the German language guided by Hlderlins poetry. These lectures are important for understanding Heideggers changing relation to politics his turn toward Nietzsche his thinking about the German language and his breakthrough to a new kind of poetic thinking. First published in 1980 as volume 39 of Heideggers Complete Works this graceful and rigorous English-language translation will be widely discussed in continental philosophy and literary theory.
language: English
title: Hölderlin's Hymns: "Germania" and "The Rhine"
publisher: Indiana University Press