Tag: poetry
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Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger’s Verse
Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger’s Verse stakes a very precise claim in Heidegger scholarship: it establishes volume 81 of the Gesamtausgabe—Gedachtes—as a central laboratory of Heidegger’s late thinking, by presenting for the first time in English the entire corpus of what Heidegger names “thought-poems,” together with the early poems, intimate letters, and scattered fragments…
S. Gros
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‘On the Origin of Language: Two Essays’ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Johann Gottfried Herder
Language’s beginning cannot be asked innocently, and this volume makes that difficulty audible. By bringing into deliberate proximity Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages and Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language, it stages an encounter between a phenomenology of emergence—voice, accent, melody, climate, polity—and a transcendental anthropology of sign-making—reflection, designation, Besonnenheit (deliberative awareness),…
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Of an Alien Homecoming: Reading Heidegger’s “Hölderlin”
This study establishes, with unusual steadiness and reach, how the problem of homecoming under estrangement becomes the pivotal relay between Heidegger’s thinking and Hölderlin’s poetizing across the decisive years 1934–1948. Its distinctive contribution lies in reconstructing the inner logic by which figures of journeying, the river, the withheld homeland, and the passage through the foreign…
S. Gros
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Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan
In Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin–Heidegger–Celan, the reader is drawn into an unusually deep reflection that insists on bringing poetry and philosophy face to face with the most pressing questions of ethics, law, and the hidden exigencies of what it means to measure the immeasurable. The volume ventures beyond any conventional moral or…
S. Gros
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Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1: The Full Story of One of the Strangest Films Ever Made.
A mesmerizing portrait of artistic perseverance and cinematic innovation, Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1 by Kenneth George Godwin unfolds as a strikingly thorough account of one of cinema’s most confounding and compelling debuts. Written at a time when the film was still a fresh wound in the collective imagination, it combines rigorous journalistic…
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Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen
Ludwig Pfeiffer’s Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen (What Remains, However, Are Created by the Poets: Hegel, Beckett, and Their Demands) is a key philosophical reflection that explores the complex and often fraught relationship between philosophy and literature. Anchored in the intellectual context of early modern Europe, where the proliferation…
S. Gros
Simon Gros 