Hölderlin’s Hymn "Remembrance"

Contents......Page 6
Translators’ Foreword......Page 12
Preliminary Considerations: Preparation for hearing the word of the poetizing......Page 18
§1. What the lecture course does not intend. On literary-historiographical research and the arbitrary interpretation of poetry......Page 19
§2. The attempt to think the word poetized by Hölderlin......Page 21
§3. That which is poetized in the word of essential poetizing “poetizes over and beyond” the poet and those who hear this word......Page 22
§4. The essential singularity of Hölderlin’s poetizing is not subject to any demand for proof......Page 23
§5. The poetizing word and language as means of communication. Planetary alienation in relation to the word......Page 24
1. “Thinking” that which is poetized......Page 26
2. Hearing that which is poetized is hearkening: waiting for the coming of the inceptual word......Page 27
§6. The univocity of “logic” and the wealth of the genuine word out of the inexhaustibility of the commencement......Page 28
§7. Remark on the editions of Hölderlin’s works......Page 29
Main Part “Remembrance”......Page 32
§8. A word of warning about merely admiring the beauty of the poem......Page 35
§9. Establishing a preliminary understanding about “content” and what is poetized in the poem......Page 36
1. The wealth of the poetizing word......Page 38
2. Poetizing and thinking as historical action......Page 39
3. The transformation of the biographical in that which is poetized......Page 40
§10. That which is poetized in the poetizing and the “content” of the poem are not the same......Page 41
§11. The beginning and conclusion of the poem......Page 44
§12. Concerning language: the poetizing word and sounding words......Page 46
§13. Language in our historical moment......Page 47
§14. Preliminary consideration of the unity of the poem......Page 48
Review......Page 49
§15. Poetizing and the explanation of nature in modernity. On the theory of “image” and “metaphor”......Page 51
§16. “The northeasterly blows.” The favor of belonging to the vocation of poet......Page 52
§17. The “greeting.” On the dangerous addiction to psychological-biographical explanation......Page 53
§18. Norbert von Hellingrath on “Hölderlin’s madness.” Commemoration of von Hellingrath......Page 55
§19. Hölderlin’s de-rangement as entering the range of a different essential locale......Page 57
Review......Page 59
§21. Transition from the first to the second strophe. The greeting thinking-in-the-direction-of as the letting be of the greeted. The greeted thinks its way to the poet......Page 60
§22. In the unity of that which is greeted, gathered by the poet’s greeting, the day’s work and stead of human dwelling arise......Page 65
§23. Preliminary hints from citing “passages” in the poetry......Page 70
Review......Page 72
§24. Celebrating as pausing from work and passing over into reflection upon the essential......Page 74
§25. The radiance of the essential within celebration. Play and dance......Page 76
§26. The essential relation between festival and history. The “bridal festival” of humans and gods......Page 77
§27. The festive as origin of attunements. Joy and mournfulness: the epigram “Sophocles”......Page 80
Review......Page 82
1. Celebration as becoming free in belonging to the inhabitual......Page 83
2. Improbable celebration in the echo of what is “habitual” in a day: the first strophe of the elegy “Bread and Wine”......Page 84
3. “The festival” and the appropriative event. The festival of the day of history in Greece. Hölderlin and Nietzsche......Page 85
§28. The greeting of the women. Their role in preparing the festival. The women of southern France and the festival that once was in Greece......Page 87
Review......Page 91
§29. Transition as reconciliation and equalization......Page 92
§30. “Night”: time-space of a thinking remembering the gods that once were. Transition in receiving the downgoing and preparing the dawn......Page 93
§31. Gods and humans as fitting themselves to what is fitting. That which is fitting and fate......Page 95
§32. How fate is viewed within the calculative thinking of metaphysics, and “fate” in Hölderlin’s sense......Page 96
§33. The festival as equalizing the while for fate......Page 97
§34. The transition from what once was in Greece into that which is to come: the veiled truth of the hymnal poetizing......Page 99
1. The provenance of the poetized transition. The “demigods” called into the transition. Hegel and Hölderlin......Page 101
2. What is fitting for humans and gods is the holy. The fitting of the jointure as letting-be......Page 103
3. Fitting as releasing into the search for essence and the loss of essence. Errancy and evil......Page 105
4. The temporal character of the “while,” and the metaphysical concept of time......Page 106
§35. “Lulling breezes . . .”: sheltering in the origin, the ownmost of humans and gods. “Golden dreams . . .”......Page 108
§36. Interim remark concerning scientific explanations of dreams......Page 109
§37. The dream. That which is dreamlike as the unreal or nonexistent......Page 111
§38. Greek thought on the dream. Pindar......Page 112
Review......Page 113
§39. The dream as shadowlike appearing of vanishing into the lightless. Presencing and absencing......Page 115
§40. The possible as presencing of vanishing from, and as appearing of arrival within “reality” (Beyng)......Page 117
§41. Hölderlin’s treatise “Becoming in Dissolution.” Dream as bringing the possible and preserving the transfigured actual......Page 118
§42. Hesitant awe before the transition onto “slow footbridges”......Page 122
Review......Page 123
§43. Greece and Germania: the banks and sides of the transition toward learning what is historically one’s own......Page 126
§44. One’s own as the holy of the fatherland, inaccessible to theologies and historiographical sciences. The “highest”......Page 129
§45. The transition from the second to the third strophe. Grounding in the homely......Page 133
§46. Interim remark concerning three misinterpretations of Hölderlin’s turn to the “fatherland”......Page 136
§47. Learning the appropriation of one’s own......Page 137
§48. What is their own for the Germans: “the clarity of presentation”......Page 139
§49. The drunkenness of higher reflection and soberness of presentation in the word......Page 141
§50. “Dark light”: that which is to be presented in the free use of one’s own......Page 143
§51. The danger of slumber among shadows. “Soulful” reflection upon the holy in the festival......Page 144
§52. “Dialogue” in the commonplace understanding and in Hölderlin’s poetic word usage......Page 150
§53. The “opinion” of the “heart” in the dialogue: the holy......Page 151
§54. Listening in the dialogue to love and deed, which, as celebration, ground the festival in advance......Page 153
§55. The endangering of the poetic dialogue of love and deeds by chatter......Page 155
§56. The poetic dialogue as “remembrance”......Page 156
§57. The question of where the friends are, and the essence of future friendship......Page 158
§58. The friends’ being shy to go to the source......Page 161
§59. “Source” and “river.” The wealth of the origin......Page 163
§60. The initial appropriation of “wealth” on the poets’ voyage across the ocean into the foreign......Page 166
§61. The “year long” learning of the foreign on the ocean voyage of a long time without festival......Page 169
§62. The singular remembrance of the locale of the friends and of the fitting that is to be poetized......Page 172
§63. The word regarding the river that goes backwards: the shy intimation of the essence of commencement and history......Page 175
§64. The passage to the foreign, “bold forgetting” of one’s own, and the return home......Page 178
§65. The founding of the coming holy in the word......Page 181
Appendix: The Interpretive Structure for the Said Poems......Page 184
Editor’s Epilogue......Page 186
Translators’ Notes......Page 190
German–English Glossary......Page 192
English–German Glossary......Page 198