Holderlin's Hymn "the Ister"

By: Martin Heidegger

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Hardcover | 1 September 1996

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Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Holderlin's hymn ""The Ister"" within the context of Holderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Holderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heidegger's Collected Works. Revealing for Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of ""the political"" and ""the national,"" in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding ""one's own"" in and through a dialogue with ""the foreign."" In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation. A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles' Antigone, known as the ""ode to man,"" is a key feature of the course.

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Heidegger's reading of 'The Ister' is thoughtful and rich. It provides his readers with the tools to build on his interpretation and to correct any missteps without doing violence to the whole.

-- "Review of Metaphysics"

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Translators' Foreword
Poetizing the Essence of the Rivers The Isther Hymn
The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Holderlin's hymnal poetry
Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the rivers
Review
The metaphysical interpretation of art
Holderlin's poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river
The river as the locality of human abode
Review
The rivers as ++vanishing++ and ++full of intimation++ in ++voice of the People++Review
The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality
The questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time
Becoming homely as the care of Holderlin's poetry--the encounter between the foreign and one's own as the fundamental truth of history--Holderlin's dialogue with Pindar and Sophocles
The Greek Interpretation of Human Beings in Sophocles' Antigone
The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song)Review
The poetic dialogue between Holderlin and Sophocles
The meaning of(Explication of the commencement of the choral ode)Review
The uncanny as the ground of human beings. (Continued explication of
Review
Further essential determinations of the human being
Review
Continued explication of the essence of the
The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song)Review
The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene
The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words)Review
Continued discussion of the hearth as being
Becoming homely in being unhomely--the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy.Part Three: Holderlin's Poetizing of the Essence of The Poet as Demigod
Holderlin's river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles--a historical becoming homely in each case
The historically grounding spirit
Explication of the lines: ++namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source
The home consumes it
Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves
Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes
The besouler would almost be scorched++
Poetizing the essence of poetry--the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river
The holy as that which is to be poetized
The rivers as the poets who found the poetic, upon whose ground human beings dwell
The poet as the enigmatic ++sign++ who lets appear that which is to be shown
The holy as the fire that ignites the poet
The meaning of naming the gods
Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descend
Concluding Remark--++Is There a Measure on Earth?
Editor's Epilogue
Translators' Notes
Glossary
English-German
German-English
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