Heidegger and the Politics of Poetry

by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

This volume collects and translates Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's studies of Heidegger, written and revised between 1990 and 2002. All deal with Heidegger's relation to politics, specifically through Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of H?lderlin. Lacoue-Labarthe argues that it is through H?lderlin that Heidegger expresses most explicitly his ideas on politics, his nationalism, and the importance of myth in his thinking, all of which point...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252031539
• ISBN13: 9780252031533
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.4"