Poetry and the Generation and Maintenance of National Community: The Core Issue and Line of Thinking in Heidegger's First Lecture on Hölderlin

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Poetry and the Generation and Maintenance of National Community: The Core Issue and Line of Thinking in Heidegger's First Lecture on Hölderlin

Zhang Zhenhua

the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Tongji University

Online:2019-05-25 Published:2019-06-28
About author:Zhang Zhenhua, Ph. D., is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Tongji University. His main research is on Heidegger, phenomenology and German philosophy.
Supported by:
the General Project of Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund (2018EZX009).

Abstract

Abstract: This paper is an interpretation of Heidegger's first lecture on Hölderlin. The lecture centers on how a national community is created and maintained, and Heidegger's belief is that poetry plays as decisive role. Poets are hailed as "demigods" between the sphere of divinity and that of people. Poetry-writing embodies the message of God and passes it to the people, and achieves the connection between them; hence a national community is generated.

Key words: Heidegger, H?lderlin, poetry, national community

Zhang Zhenhua. Poetry and the Generation and Maintenance of National Community: The Core Issue and Line of Thinking in Heidegger's First Lecture on Hölderlin[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art.

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