Monday, February 9, 2026

17 Feb Heidegger and the Aletheic Aesthetic

“On the Origin of the Work of Art” excerpt




Recommended: 

Taminiaux, Poetics, Speculation, and Judgment

Agamben, “The Original Structure of the Work of Art”

Agamben, “Privation Is Like a Face”

Sloterdijk, “The Command from the Stone

Gadamer, “Symbol” (in The Relevance of the Beautiful)

Babich, “From Van Gogh’s Museum to the Temple at Bassae”


Monday, February 2, 2026

Hölderlin’s Hymns / Hölderlin’s Madness 9 February 2026

 Hölderlin’s Hymns:‘Germania’ and ‘The Rhine’ 


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     Remembrance





The Heidegger texts exist in book form (the links above are to the publisher's website) and are otherwise difficult to come by as PDF although they can be found on the official course blackboard site, via the university library, and various websites, including a fairly inexpensive google site. If a reader knows of a better alternative, kindly add a comment with the link.

Recommended: 

Heidegger, Elucidations, Heidegger, The Ister; Foti, “From an Agonistic of Powers to a Homecoming: Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Sophocles” Heidegger Circle Proceedings, BU 2006; McNeill, “Heidegger’s Hölderlin Lectures” https://www.beyng.com/docs/WilliamMcNeillHolderlinLectures.html; Bambach, Of an Alien Homecoming; Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say?




Monday, January 26, 2026

Heidegger on the Poietic 2 February 2026



Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics (Manheim translation)]

  • Aber — die Philosophie macht ihrem Wesen nach die Dinge nie leichter, sondern nur schwerer.  

Heidegger, Einführung in die Metaphysik, 9



Recommended: 

Dahlstrom, “Heidegger’s Method“; Heidegger, What is a Thing?; Elden w/Axelos, Mondialisation without the world„; Bambach, “Heidegger, Tragedy, and the Ethics of the Uncanny”; Babich, “On Pain and Tragic Joy” in Words and Blood, Like Flowers; Schürmann, “A Brutal Awakening to the Tragic Condition of Being




30 March: Heidegger’s Life-Philosophy: Dwelling, Eco-Ethos

Reading  Heidegger, “ Building DwellingThinking ” / “ Poetically Man Dwells? ” Recommended  Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci   Scully, The Earth,...