Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of H lderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of H lderlin's poetry.
Gosetti-Ferencei argues that Heidegger has overlooked central elements in H lderlin's poetics, such as a Kantian understanding of aesthetic subjectivity and a commitment to Enlightenment ideals.
These elements, she argues, resist the more politically distressing aspects of Heidegger's interpretations, including Heidegger's nationalist valorization of the German language and sense of nationhood, or Heimat.
In the context of H lderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei draws a different model of poetic subjectivity, which engages Heidegger's later philosophy of Gelassenheit, calmness, or letting be.
In so doing, she is able to pose a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a new poetics of Dasein, or being there.
About the Author JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
She is the author of The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art & Literature and of After the Palace Burns, which won The Paris Review prize in poetry.
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Fordham University Press Heidegger, hlderlin, and the subject of poetic language: toward a new poetics of dasein, paperback/jennifer anna gosetti-ferencei
