This volume traces the ways in which Heidegger’s philosophical thinking has been taken up, critically re-appropriated, and disseminated in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20^th century.

Within the vast reception history of Martin Heidegger’s philosophical thought poets, novelists, and playwrights have occupied a central place. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives by tracing the manifold, often surprising ways in which Heideggerian concepts, motifs, and concerns have been taken up in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century. In their contributions, scholars from the Americas, Asia, and Europe explore intellectual constellations between Heidegger and selected literary figures such as John Ashbery, Julia de Burgos, Paul Celan, Elfriede Jelinek, and Velimir Khlebnikov.

The volume unveils the immense creativity that crystallizes in these poetic and literary traces and disseminations of Heidegger’s thinking. Hence, it points to new and fruitful ways to critically intervene in current philosophical and literary debates.

Variations on a Theme of “Poetic Thinking”: An Introduction

Florian Grosser and Nassima Sahraoui

PART I: IN-BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

Text, Exegesis, and Salvation

1 Heidegger and the Critics

Julia Ireland

2 Heidegger as Introduction to Talmud

Elad Lapidot

3 Reactionary Nostalgia: Badiou, Heidegger, and the Poets

Luca di Blasi

4 In the Outhouse of Being: What Satires Tell Us About Heidegger’s Philosophy

Dieter Thomä

Displacing the House of Being

5 “Beth—that is the House”: Paul Celan’s Hebrew Dwelling

Simone Stirner

6 Meridians of Truth: From Heidegger’s Geography of Being to Celan’s Topology of Language

Nassima Sahraoui

7 Handke’s Doubt: Slow Homecoming in Conversation with Heidegger

Florian Grosser

PART II: LITERARY RECEPTION POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Hölderlin and the Poetics of the States

8 “The Right to Be”: Stevens and Heidegger on Thinking and Poetizing

Frederick Dolan

9 “Victory Is an Illusion of Philosophers and Fools”: Heidegger, Faulkner, and the Ruination of the Proper

Benjamin Brewer

10 “The Gods are never quite forgotten”: John Ashbery’s Heidegger

Luke Carson

11 Heidegger’s Mistress? Meditations on Dasein in David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress

Tim Personn

Crossing the Boundaries of the Other: History, Time, and Silence

12 The Impossible Death of Julia de Burgos: Reading “¡Dádme mi número!” at the Limits of Da-sein

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús

13 Lezama Lima and the Resurrection of the Image (An Ontological Enigma)

Mauricio González

14 The Boundary of Ontological Time and its Crossing: ShūzōKuki’s Analysis of Japanese Poetry as an Unrealized Dialogue with Heidegger

Yohei Kageyama

15 Heidegger and Russian Revolutionary Nonsense

Jeff Love

Index