The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments during National Socialism and Hölderlin's ideal of poetic dwelling.

• Contents
• Abbreviations
  • Heidegger
  • Hölderlin
  • Hellingrath
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
  • Heidegger’s “Hölderlin”
• Introduction
  • I. Hölderlin as a “Transition”
  • II. Philosophical “Andenken”: Hölderlin as the Voice of the Other Beginning
  • III. Who Is Heidegger’s Hölderlin?
  • IV. Language, “Ethos,” and the Ethicality of Being
• 1 Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine”
  • I. “Hölderlin” and the Great War
  • II. Norbert Von Hellingrath and the Hölderlin Myth
  • III. Heidegger and the “Secret” Germania
  • IV. Hölderlin without History
  • V. “The Rhine”: Heidegger and Originary Springing Forth
  • VI. Physis as Poiesis: Beyng as Poetic Event
  • VII. The Mystery of “das Reinentsprungene” and the Vocation of the Poet
  • VIII. The Beyng of the Demigods
• 2 Heidegger’s “Remembrance” Lectures
  • I. Hölderlin and “The National”
  • II. A Metapolitics of the Volk
  • III. Staging the “Remembrance” Lectures: The Vestibule
  • IV. The Greeting of the Wind
  • V. Jews, Greeks, and the Occlusion of the First Beginning
  • VI. The Time of the Festival and the Graeco-German Beginning
  • VII. Festival, Equinoctial Time, and the Balance of Equilibrium
  • VIII. Heidegger’s Destinal Politics of a German National Mission
  • IX. The Passage to the Foreign and the Journey Homeward
• 3 Heidegger’s “Ister” Lectures: Ethical Dwelling in the (Foreign) Homeland
  • I. “Hölderlin” as the Name for an Other Beginning of Thinking
  • II. Dwelling in the Intimacy of Truth: Oppostional Harmony and the Böhlendorff Logic
  • III. Translation and the Uncanny Essence of Human Being
  • IV. Tragedy and the Definition of the Human Being as a “Katastrophe”
  • V. The Language of Contradiction: Oxymoron and Tragic Manifestation
  • VI. Poet and River as Demi-Gods
  • VII. “At home is spirit not at the beginning”
  • VIII. Of Time and the River: Naming, Reversal, and Historical Dwelling
  • IX. German Hospitality?
• 4 Historical Interlude: Heidegger in 1945–1946
  • I. Heidegger’s “Kahlschlag”: The Poverty of Thinking
  • II. Heidegger’s Revenge: War Guilt, Retribution, and the Politics of Ressentiment
  • III. Hölderlin, the West, and Destiny
• 5 Heidegger in Dialogue with Hölderlin: “The Western Conversation”
  • I. Heidegger’s “Conversation” with Hölderlin
  • II. The Schwung from the First to the Other Beginning
  • III. The Opening of “The Western Conversation”
  • IV. The Ister as Fateful Site of an Ordeal
  • V. Hölderlin, Destiny, and the German Bequest
  • VI. Poetic Geography and Destinal History: The German Danube
  • VII. The Bread and Wine Fragment and German Destiny
• Postscript
• Notes
• Bibliography
  • Hölderlin
  • Heidegger
• Index