"The first book on the notion of the Holy in Heidegger, this collection evokes a poetic sense of awe before the divine present in his philosophical approach"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: The Holy in Heidegger: The Open Clearing as Excess and Abyss
  • I. The Unholy World of Modernity
  • II. The Clearing as Un/ground
  • III. God/s, Godhood, and the Passing of the Last God
  • IV. Chaos, Chora, and Regioning
  • V. Dwelling and Nature
  • VI. Awe, Wonder, Ethos
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 2: The Unsayable Mystery of the Holy: Hölderlin’s Late Poetry
  • I. Heidegger’s Discussion of the Holy
  • II. Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language
  • Concluding Reflection
  • Notes
• Chapter 3: The Divine as the Origin of the Work of Art
  • I. Ontological Effort in Contributions to Philosophy
  • II. Effort for the Divine
  • III. Preservation of the Truth of Being in Beings
  • IV. The Presencing of the Divine
  • V. The Origin of the Work of Art
  • VI. “Building Dwelling Thinking”
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 4: Poetic Colors of the Holy: Heidegger on Pindar and Trakl
  • I. Chrusology, Ontology, Hierology
  • II. Sacré bleu
  • III. A Heideggerian Farbenlehre?
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: Tracing the Holy in Heidegger’s Hölderlin’s Hymns “Germania” and “The Rhine”
  • I. Benveniste: Language, Linguistics, and the Holy
  • II. Heidegger and Hölderlin on the Holy
  • III. Dichtung: Language, Poetry, and Community
  • IV. Silence and the Holy
  • Closing Remarks: Heidegger and the Holy
  • Notes
• Chapter 6: Heidegger and the Question and the Need of the Holy
  • I. Heidegger’s Early Thought: The Holy as a Value and the Critique of Neo-Kantianism
  • II. Heidegger’s Middle Thought: The Death of God and Hölderlin’s Poetry of the Holy
  • III. Heidegger’s Late Thought: The Lacking of Holy Names and a New Way of Questioning
  • IV. After Heidegger: From the anonymity of the holy to the holy of revelation and to the holiness of the human being
  • Notes
• Chapter 7: Through Being to the Holy: Learning to Ask the Question of Being
  • I. Turning (Away From Being and Time)
  • II. The Thing, the Holy, and the Question of Being
  • III. Being and the Holy: Learning to Think—Learning to Question
  • IV. Unusual Beings
  • V. The Time of the Thing: For a While
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
• Chapter 8: The Holy in Heidegger’s Reading of Greek Tragedy: Necessity, Measure, and Law
  • I. Intimating the Holy in Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Prometheus, and Necessity
  • II. Sophoclean Tragedy and the Holy: Oedipus, Antigone, Measure, and Law
  • Concluding Thoughts
    • We Who Are Banished From the Hearth, the Site of the Holy
  • Notes
• Chapter 9: Retrieving and Constructing a Spatial-Phenomenology of the Holy in the Early Heidegger
  • I. The Matter in Basic Problems and Introducing the Dynamic between Diametric and Concentric Spaces
  • II. Retrieving the Holy from a Covering Up through Diametric Space as Gegenstand, as Standing Against, Standing Opposite, Side-by-Side
  • III. Stretch, Continuity, Transition, and the Open as Concentric Space: The Excision of a Connective Space from Temporality in Basic Problems
  • IV. Retrieving a Prior Spatial Realm of Being and the Holy from the Diametric Spatial Mirror Image Inversion of the Sensuous and Non-Sensuous Realm Underpinning the beyond of Metaphysics
  • Notes
• Notes on the Text and Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe
  • Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe published by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main:
• Index
• CONTRIBUTORS