Hlderlin's Hymn "Remembrance"

"This faithful and readable translation by William McNeill and Julia Ireland serves as a critical orientation to interpreting Heidegger's later thought, which has become the focus of a great deal of scholarly interest. In Heidegger's own words, Hlderlin's poetry is 'absolutely essential' to understanding his later thought."Christopher D. Merwin, Emory University

William McNeill is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is translator (with Jeffrey Powell) of Martin Heidegger's The History of Beyng and (with Julia Ireland) of Hlderlin's Hymn "The Ister" and Hlderlin's Hymn "Germania" and "The Rhine." Julia Ireland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Whitman College. She is translator (with William McNeill) of Martin Heidegger's Hlderlin's Hymn "The Ister" and Hlderlin's Hymn "Germania" and "The Rhine."

Translators' Foreword PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS Preparation for Hearing the Word of the Poetizing 1. What the Lecture Course Does Not Intend. On Literary-Historiographical Research and the Arbitrary Interpretation of Poetry 2. The Attempt to Think the Word Poetized by Hlderlin 3. That Which is Poetized in the Word of Essential Poetizing 'Poetizes Over and Beyond' the Poet and Those Who Hear this Word 4. The Essential Singularity of Hlderlin's Poetizing is Not Subject to Any Demand for Proof 5. The Poetizing Word and Language as Means of Communication. Planetary Alienation in Relation to the Word Review 1) 'Thinking' That Which is Poetized 2) Hearing That Which is Poetized is Hearkening: Waiting for the Coming of the Inceptual Word 6. The Univocity of 'Logic' and the Wealth of the Genuine Word Out of the Inexhaustibility of the Commencement 7. Remark on the Editions of Hlderlin's Works MAIN PART "Remembrance" 8. A Word of Warning about Merely Admiring the Beauty of the Poem 9. Establishing a Preliminary Understanding About 'Content' and What is Poetized in the Poem Review 1) The Wealth of the Poetizing Word 2) Poetizing and Thinking as Historical Action 3) The Transformation of the Biographical in That Which is Poetized 10. That Which is Poetized in the Poetizing and the 'Content' of the Poem are Not the Same Part One Entry into the Realm of the Poem as Word 11. The Beginning and Conclusion of the Poem 12. Concerning Language: The Poetizing Word and Sounding Words 13. Language in Our Historical Moment 14. Preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the Poem Review 15. Poetizing and the Explanation of Nature in Modernity. On the Theory of 'Image' and 'Metaphor' 16. "The Northeasterly blows." The Favor of Belonging to the Vocation of Poet 17. The "Greeting." On the Dangerous Addiction to Psychological-Biographical Explanation 18. Norbert von Hellingrath on "Hlderlin's Madness." Commemoration of von Hellingrath 19. Hlderlin's De-rangement as Entering the Range of a Different Essential Locale 20. The "Going" of the Northeasterly. The "Greeting" of the Poet's Going with It Review 21. Transition From the First to the Second Strophe. The Greeting Thinking-in-the-Direction-Of as the Letting Be of the Greeted. The Greeted Thinks Its Way To the Poet 22. In the Unity of That Which is Greeted, Gathered by the Poet's Greeting, the Day's Work and Stead of Human Dwelling Arise Part Two "Holidays" and "Festival" in Hlderlin's Poetizing 23. Preliminary Hints From Citing 'Passages' In the Poetry Review 24. Celebrating as Pausing From Work and Passing Over into Reflection upon the Essential 25. The Radiance of the Essential Within Celebration. Play and Dance 26. The Essential Relation Between Festival and History. The "Bridal Festival" of Humans and Gods 27. The Festive as Origin of Attunements. Joy and Mournfulness: The Epigram "Sophocles" Review 1) Celebration as Becoming Free in Belonging to the Inhabitual 2) Improbable Celebration in the Echo of What is 'Habitual' in a Day: The First Strophe of the Elegy "Bread and Wine" 3) "The Festival" and the Appropriative Event. The Festival of the Day of History in Greece. Hlderlin and Nietzsche 28. The Greeting of the Women. Their Role in Preparing the Festival. The Women of Southern France and the Festival that Once Was in Greece Review 29. Transition as Reconciliation and Equalization 30. "Night": Time-Space of a Thinking Remembering the Gods that Once Were Transition in Receiving the Downgoing and Preparing the Dawn 31. Gods and Humans as Fitting Themselves to What is Fitting. That Which is Fitting and