Finding Time: Reading for Temporality in Hölderlin and Heidegger (Studies in Modern German Literature) - Hardcover

Torno, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820423157 ISBN 13: 9780820423159

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

This study analyzes the temporality of «Wie wenn am Feiertage...,» a pivotal poem by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843). After showing how a straightforward philological reading leads only to aporia, the author turns to Martin Heidegger and develops a new way of reading for temporality based on his phenomenological hermeneutics. The path taken covers three of his most important and influential essays from the 1930's, including «The Origin of the Work of Art». In the course of these readings the important but hitherto overlooked concept of the «decision» facing humanity in Heidegger's thought is brought out and brought into relation with Hölderlin's poetry. Time as kairós and as the «holiday» is shown to be fundamentally different from the uniform temporality assumed by both natural science and poststructuralism.

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About the Author:

The Author: Timothy Torno received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in German Literature with a specialization in the poetry of Hölderlin. He is currently researching the significance of temporality for the literature and theory of the Age of Goethe. Dr. Torno has also written on Ernst Jandl and on patterns of violence in the Nibelungenlied.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0820423157
• ISBN 13: 9780820423159
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215