Book contents
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Heidegger and Literature: An Introduction to the Question
- I Literature and Poetry
- II Heidegger and Greek Literature
- III Heidegger and Literary Works
- 8 Places of Pain
- 9 The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
- 10 Heidegger and Blanchot
- 11 Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger
- 12 Travels in Greece
- 13 Hölderlin’s Heidegger, Heidegger’s Mourning
- Heidegger, Index of Works
- General Index
- References
8 - Places of Pain
Heidegger’s Reading of Trakl
from III - Heidegger and Literary Works
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Book contents
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Heidegger and Literature: An Introduction to the Question
- I Literature and Poetry
- II Heidegger and Greek Literature
- III Heidegger and Literary Works
- 8 Places of Pain
- 9 The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
- 10 Heidegger and Blanchot
- 11 Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger
- 12 Travels in Greece
- 13 Hölderlin’s Heidegger, Heidegger’s Mourning
- Heidegger, Index of Works
- General Index
- References
Summary
The thinking of place is a crucial preoccupation in Heidegger’s late thinking, especially sustained by an ongoing frequentation of poetry and its posture towards language. The question of Ort is illuminated in Heidegger’s discussion of Georg Trakl, notably in two essays: “Die Sprache,” presented in a first lecture version on October 7, 1950; and “Die Sprache im Gedicht: Eine Erörterung von Georg Trakls Gedicht,” first presented on October 4, 1952 under the title “Georg Trakl: Eine Erörterung seines Gedichtes” and published the following year with the same title (Merkur 61, 226–258). In this study I trace a few moments of Heidegger’s meditation on place in these two texts. Issues ranging from estrangement to belonging, from rhythm to the quiet unity preceding all difference, from body to politics, from pain and evil to their transfiguration, are encountered along these paths.
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