Hölderlin's hymn the ister, hardcover/martin heidegger

Martin Heidegger s 1942 lecture course interprets Friedrich Hölderlins hymn The Ister within the context of Hölderlins poetic and philosophical work, with particular emphasis on Hölderlins dialogue with Greek tragedy.

Delivered in summer 1942 at the University of Freiburg, this course was first published in German in 1984 as volume 53 of Heideggers Collected Works.

Revealing for Heideggers thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of the political and the national, in which he emphasizes the difficulty and the necessity of finding ones own in and through a dialogue with the foreign.

In this context Heidegger reflects on the nature of translation and interpretation.

A detailed reading of the famous chorus from Sophocles Antigone, known as the ode to man, is a key feature of the course.

About author(s): William McNeill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and translator (with Nicholas Walker) of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin Heidegger .

Julia Davis is Research Associate at Whitman College and former Fulbright Fellow at Freiburg University.