Heidegger, "The Nature of Language" in On the Way to Language
Philosophy and Poetry
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Flower of the Mouth
Heidegger, "The Nature of Language" in On the Way to Language
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Mere Being
Critchley, “The Philosophical Significance of a Poem (On Wallace Stevens)”; Gardner, “Wallace Stevens and Metaphysics”; Goldfarb, “Poetics of Variation: Wallace Stevens’ and Paul Valéry’s Poems of the Sea”; McInerny, “The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry”; Kelley, “‘A Radiant and Productive Atmosphere’: Encounters of Wallace Stevens and Stanley Cavell”; Babich, “Wallace Stevens Philosophical Voice”; Pfau, “Confluences: Reading Wallace Stevens”
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Hölderlin: Nature and Art
Babich, “The Ethos of Nature and Art: Hölderlin’s Ecological Politics” in Words in Blood, Like Flowers
Recommended
Flodin, "Remembering Nature Through Art"
Michaelis, "The Deadly Goddess"
Istvan, "The Sacred, or the Bright Sounds of Silence"
Ospina, "Hölderlin and the U'wa"
Schuwer, "Nature and the Holy"
Louth, "Urge for the Impossible"
Haar, "Heidegger and the God of Hölderlin"
Weller, "Literature and the Politics of Madness"
Fóti, "Speak You Also: Derrida's Readings of Paul Celan" in Mosaic 2006
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Full of merit, yet poetically, the human / dwells... – Hölderlin
Heidegger, “Poetically the human dwells...”
Hölderlin, In lovely blue...
Recommended:
Bambach, “Who is Heidegger's Hölderlin?”
Bambach and George, “Introduction” to Philosophers and their Poets
Schmid, “Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Problem of Poiesis”
Babich, “Heidegger and Hölderlin on Aether and Life”
Harvey, “The Political Enemy of Public Space”
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Rilke: Duino Elegies
Charlie Louth, “Duineser Elegien” in Rilke: The Life of the Work
Babich, “Anders and Arendt: Reading Rilke, Love Songs to God” in Günther Anders' Philosophy of Technology: From Phenomenology to Critical Theory
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Between Swinburne and Baudelaire — and Hopkins
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Nietzsche as Poet
Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Nietzsche. Dionysian Dithyrambs
Babich, “The ‘Gay’ Science”
Recommended:
Burke, The Textual Estate
Kaufmann, 1955 “Nietzsche and Rilke”
L’Hermitte, The Troubadours through the Eyes of Nietzsche
Strong, “Preface” in Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Politics of the Ordinary
Strong, “How to Write Scripture”