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1 - Heidegger’s Literary Secret

from I - Literature and Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

By
Joseph Cohen
Edited by
Andrew Benjamin
Andrew Benjamin
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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Summary

It remains surprising to never see Heidegger pose the question What is literature? In this sense, our interrogation will revolve around why Heidegger never applies the “fundamental question” to the very specific form of logos at work and in play in literature. And thus, why Heidegger never overtly enquires into the heading which literature could provide for and in the “History of Being.” Does something lie in literature – a secret – which impedes its grasp in the ontological horizon of the “History of Being”?

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sacrificetruth of beinghistorybeing-towards-deathjustice“danger,” “saving power”
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Heidegger and Literary Studies , pp. 15 - 28
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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