Heidegger in the Literary World

Florian Grosser teaches in the College of the University of Chicago. His research interests lie in twentieth century continental philosophy, political and social philosophy, and aesthetics. He is the author of the monographs Revolution denken. Heidegger und das Politische 1919-1969 and Theorien der Revolution.Nassima Sahraoui is a researcher based in Germany. Her areas of research are political theory, history of philosophy, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. She is the author of Dynamis. Eine materialistische Philosophie der Differenz and is preparing another monograph on Forms of Resistance.

Heidegger in the Literary World shows us that we might do well in taking Heidegger’s cue and treating literature and poetry with the same care and, indeed, reverence he pays to Trakl, Rilke, and again, most of all, to Hölderlin. The editors invoke Jacques Derrida to define the ethics or politics of reading at work in the volume, but they could equally well have stayed with Heidegger to outline such principles of reading. That is, the aspiration to reach that height of critique which Heidegger called Auseinandersetzung.

• Variations on a Theme of “Poetic Thinking”: An IntroductionFlorian Grosser and Nassima SahraouiPART I: IN-BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATUREText, Exegesis, and Salvation 1 Heidegger and the Critics  Julia Ireland2 Heidegger as Introduction to TalmudElad Lapidot3 Reactionary Nostalgia: Badiou, Heidegger, and the PoetsLuca di Blasi4 In the Outhouse of Being: What Satires Tell Us About Heidegger’s PhilosophyDieter ThomäDisplacing the House of Being5 “Beth—that is the House”: Paul Celan’s Hebrew Dwelling Simone Stirner6 Meridians of Truth: From Heidegger’s Geography of Being to Celan’s Topology of Language Nassima Sahraoui7 Handke’s Doubt: Slow Homecoming in Conversation with HeideggerFlorian GrosserPART II: LITERARY RECEPTION POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST Hölderlin and the Poetics of the States8 “The Right to Be”: Stevens and Heidegger on Thinking and PoetizingFrederick Dolan9 “Victory Is an Illusion of Philosophers and Fools”: Heidegger,