While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandeveldes new study forges this important link.
Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the interaction between literature and philosophy: early German romanticism (especially Schlegel and Novalis), and Heideggers work with poetry in the 1930s. Both models offer an alternative to the paradigm of mimesis, as exemplified by Aristotles and Platos discussion of poetry, and both German romanticism and Heidegger owe a deep debt to Plato. The study goes on to defend the view that Heidegger was influenced by romanticism. The authors project is thus both historical, showing the specificity of the romantic and Heideggerean works, and systematic, defending aspects of their alternative mode of thinking while also pointing to their weaknesses.
Recenzijos
"Pol Vandeveldes Heidegger and the Romantics is an important and, in many ways, pioneering study [ ...] There is much rich detail in Vandeveldes exemplary book; it is based on solid scholarship and it is full of provocative implications." --Hakhamanesh Zangeneh, California State University Stanislaus, USA in Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual Volume 3, 2013
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
(18)
PART I The Literary Project of Early German Romanticism
19
(58)
1 The Work as Fragment: Toward a New Kind of Criticism
23
(26)
2 Transcendental Poetry: An Elusive Metaphysics
49
(28)
PART II "Poetry Makes a Being More Being": Heidegger's Poetic Program in the 1930s and Early 1940s
77
(95)
3 From the Sense of Being to the Truth of Being: Poetry, Language, and History
85
(55)
4 Toward a New Ontology: The Poetic Configuration of Things
140
(32)
Conclusion: The Unfinished Project of Hermeneutics
172
(9)
Notes
181
(8)
Works Cited
189
(6)
Index
195
Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University.
