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Das Stück behandelt die letzten Lebenstage des vorsokratischenPhilosophen Empedokles aus Agrigent, der sich einer Legende nach durch einen Sturz in den Ätna das Leben nahm.

Hölderlins hauptsächliche Quelle für den Empedokles-Stoff waren die Lebensbeschreibungen, Lehren und Aussprüche hervorragender Philosophen des antiken Philosophiehistorikers Diogenes Laertius.(aus wikipedia.de) ... Read more

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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

Martin Heidegger's 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister" within the context of Hölderlin's poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlin's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Revealing of 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."

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Heidegger's "Later" Thinking
This is one of the most important of Heidegger's "later" texts that deals with the question of how we may recover what is most proper to a people by encountering the other. The poetic discussion of the Greek Ister and the journeys that it take serves as an image for an encounter which will unveil the proper of the people.

The text will be of great importance for those who are engaged in the study of Heidegger, Levinas and Holderlin's thinking.

Typically Great Lecture Course by Heidegger
This lecture course from 1942 has as its subject Holderlin's poem "The Ister."The Ister is the river known in English as the Danube, a river that marked the edge of the Roman Empire, and that roughly divides Eastern and Western Europe.Heidegger's reading of Holderlin leads us to reflect on the nature of nature: there is a spontaneous emergence of reality that provides the insurpassable context for all our life, all our experience, all meaning.Reflecting on the river is reflecting on this _phusis_ in its specificity and singularity, and becomes a way for us to reflect on the most profound dimensions of our existence--our mortality, our creativity, our ability to care--in their most creatively transformative and in their must destructive forms.The reflection on Holderlin and on the river leads especially into reflection on technology (especially as embodied in Americanism) and its dangers, and on art and its powers.Though the lecture course is officially about Holderlin's poem, much of the course is devoted to careful study of Sophocles _Antigone_, which Heidegger sees as closely related to _der Ister_ in what is makes manifest about nature and humanity.The reflections on _Antigone_ especially lead into reflections on the _polis_.These political reflections of course resonate with the prominent political events of the day--Nazi Europe facing the American West and the USSR to the East.This is a provocative, brilliant, and difficult text, well worth study by those interested in continental philosophy, Greek literature, technology, and many other topics.The film "The Ister," that was made to accompany this text is also excellent, and works wonderfully as a complement to Heidegger and to the texts of Holderlin and Sophocles.I recommend this highly. ... Read more

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Hölderlin among the philosophers
Dieter Henrich's essays on the ideas and the works of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin offer a fascinating glimpse into the early formation of German idealism. As teenagers, Hölderlin and the philosophers Hegel andSchelling were roommates at the Tübingen Stift theological seminary.Hölderlin's early interaction both with his friends and with otherluminaries on the intellectual scene in Jena lead Henrich to argue that thepoet in fact had a significant though hitherto unappreciated influence onthe development on Hegel's mature philosophical system. Hölderlin penned afascinating, if obscure, critique of Fichte, whose lectures he heard inJena in 1794-95. He may also have been the true author of the famoustwo-page (misnamed) "Oldest System Program of German Idealism"manuscript of 1795, which appears in Hegel's handwriting, but whose contentsuggests a collaborative effort and moverover seems uncharacteristic ofHegel's ideas at the time. Did Hölderlin inspire Hegel to move beyond theKantian dualism of nature and spirit, and instead see the two as one, or asbecoming one in time? Since Hölderlin tragically became mentallyincapacitated shortly after the turn of the century, and since Hegel hardlyever mentioned his former friend in any of his subsequent works, we maynever know the true depth and extent of the poet's impact on this shortchapter in the history of philosophy. The last hundred pages of this volumecontain a translation of Henrich's short book devoted entirely toHölderlin's poem, "Remembrance" (Andenken). Here we see thephilosophical undertones of Hölderlin's poetic work, not fully articulated,but unmistakably present in his lyrical and evocative language. This bookis not for everyone, not a casual bedside read. But it is a vital resourcefor specialists and enthusiasts of the German Enlightenment and Romatictraditions, and especially for those interested in the life and ideas ofthis great poet still so foreign and unfamiliar to the English-speakingworld. Finally, the translations of Henrich - and indeed of Hölderlinhimself - are clear and precise, capturing in relatively natural-soundingEnglish Henrich's unfortunately often rather turgid German prose. ... Read more