Translators' Foreword

PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS

Preparation for Hearing the Word of the Poetizing

1. What the Lecture Course Does Not Intend. On Literary-Historiographical Research and the Arbitrary Interpretation of Poetry

2. The Attempt to Think the Word Poetized by Hölderlin

3. That Which is Poetized in the Word of Essential Poetizing 'Poetizes Over and Beyond' the Poet and Those Who Hear this Word

4. The Essential Singularity of Hölderlin's Poetizing is Not Subject to Any Demand for Proof

5. The Poetizing Word and Language as Means of Communication. Planetary Alienation in Relation to the Word

Review

1) 'Thinking' That Which is Poetized

2) Hearing That Which is Poetized is Hearkening: Waiting for the Coming of the Inceptual Word

6. The Univocity of 'Logic' and the Wealth of the Genuine Word Out of the Inexhaustibility of the Commencement

7. Remark on the Editions of Hölderlin's Works

MAIN PART

"Remembrance"

8. A Word of Warning about Merely Admiring the Beauty of the Poem

9. Establishing a Preliminary Understanding About 'Content' and What is Poetized in the Poem

Review

1) The Wealth of the Poetizing Word

2) Poetizing and Thinking as Historical Action

3) The Transformation of the Biographical in That Which is Poetized

10. That Which is Poetized in the Poetizing and the 'Content' of the Poem are Not the Same

Part One

Entry into the Realm of the Poem as Word

11. The Beginning and Conclusion of the Poem

12. Concerning Language: The Poetizing Word and Sounding Words

13. Language in Our Historical Moment

14. Preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the Poem

Review

15. Poetizing and the Explanation of Nature in Modernity. On the Theory of 'Image' and 'Metaphor'

16. "The Northeasterly blows." The Favor of Belonging to the Vocation of Poet

17. The "Greeting." On the Dangerous Addiction to Psychological-Biographical Explanation

18. Norbert von Hellingrath on "Hölderlin's Madness." Commemoration of von Hellingrath

19. Hölderlin's De-rangement as Entering the Range of a Different Essential Locale

20. The "Going" of the Northeasterly. The "Greeting" of the Poet's Going with It

Review

21. Transition From the First to the Second Strophe. The Greeting Thinking-in-the-Direction-Of as the Letting Be of the Greeted. The Greeted Thinks Its Way To the Poet

22. In the Unity of That Which is Greeted, Gathered by the Poet's Greeting, the Day's Work and Stead of Human Dwelling Arise

Part Two

"Holidays" and "Festival" in Hölderlin's Poetizing

23. Preliminary Hints From Citing 'Passages' In the Poetry

Review

24. Celebrating as Pausing From Work and Passing Over into Reflection upon the Essential

25. The Radiance of the Essential Within Celebration. Play and Dance

26. The Essential Relation Between Festival and History. The "Bridal Festival" of Humans and Gods

27. The Festive as Origin of Attunements. Joy and Mournfulness: The Epigram "Sophocles"

Review

1) Celebration as Becoming Free in Belonging to the Inhabitual

2) Improbable Celebration in the Echo of What is 'Habitual' in a Day: The First Strophe of the Elegy "Bread and Wine"

3) "The Festival" and the Appropriative Event. The Festival of the Day of History in Greece. Hölderlin and Nietzsche

28. The Greeting of the Women. Their Role in Preparing the Festival. The Women of Southern France and the Festival that Once Was in Greece

Review

29. Transition as Reconciliation and Equalization

30. "Night": Time-Space of a Thinking Remembering the Gods that Once Were Transition in Receiving the Downgoing and Preparing the Dawn

31. Gods and Humans as Fitting Themselves to What is Fitting. That Which is Fitting and Fate

32. How Fate is Viewed Within the Calculative Thinking of Metaphysics, and "Fate" in Hölderlin's Sense

33. The Festival as Equalizing the While for Fate

34. The Transition from What Once Was in Greece into That Which is to Come: The Veiled Truth of the Hymnal Poetizing

Review

1) The Provenance of the Poetized Transition. The "Demigods" Called into the Transition. Hegel and Hölderlin

2) What is Fitting for Humans and Gods is the Holy. The Fitting of the Jointure as Letting-be

3) Fitting as Releasing into the Search for Essence and the Loss of Essence. Errancy and Evil

4) The Temporal Character of the "While," and the Metaphysical Concept of Time

35. "Lulling Breezes": Sheltering in the Origin, the Ownmost of Humans and Gods. "Golden Dreams"

36. Interim Remark Concerning Scientific Explanations of Dreams

37. The Dream. That Which Is Dreamlike as the Unreal or Nonexistent

38. Greek Thought on the Dream. Pindar

Review

39. The Dream as Shadow-like Appearing of Vanishing into the Lightless. Presencing and Absencing

40. The Possible as Presencing of Vanishing from, and as Appearing of Arrival Within 'Reality' (Beyng)

41. Hölderlin's Treatise "Becoming in Dissolution." Dream as Bringing the Possible and Preserving the Transfigured Actual

Part Three

The Search for the Free Use of One's Own

42. Hesitant Awe Before the Transition onto "Slow Footbridges"

Review

43. Greece and Germania: The Banks and Sides of the Transition Toward Learning What is Historically One's Own

44. One's Own as the Holy of the Fatherland, Inaccessible to Theologies and Historiographical Sciences. The "Highest"

45. The Transition From the Second to the Third Strophe. Grounding in the Homely

46. Interim Remark Concerning Three Misinterpretations of Hölderlin's Turn to the "Fatherland"

47. Learning the Appropriation of One's Own

48. What is Their Own for the Germans: "The Clarity of Presentation"

49. The Drunkenness of Higher Reflection and Soberness of Presentation in the Word

50. "Dark Light": That Which is to be Presented in the Free Use of One's Own

51. The Danger of Slumber Among Shadows. "Soulful" Reflection Upon the Holy in the Festival

Part Four

The Dialogue with the Friends as Fitting Preparation for the Festival

52. "Dialogue" in the Commonplace Understanding and in Hölderlin's Poetic Word Usage

53. The "Opinion" of the "Heart" in the Dialogue: The Holy

54. Listening in the Dialogue to Love and Deed, which, as Celebration, Ground the Festival in Advance

55. The Endangering of the Poetic Dialogue of Love and Deeds by Chatter

56. The Poetic Dialogue as "Remembrance"

57. The Question of Where the Friends Are, and the Essence of Future Friendship

58. The Friends' Being Shy to Go to the Source

59. "Source" and "River." The Wealth of the Origin

60. The Initial Appropriation of "Wealth" on the Poets' Voyage Across the Ocean into the Foreign

61. The "Year Long" Learning of the Foreign on the Ocean Voyage of a Long Time Without Festival

62. The Singular Remembrance of the Locale of the Friends and of the Fitting that is to be Poetized

63. The Word Regarding the River that Goes Backwards: The Shy Intimation of the Essence of Commencement and History

64. The Passage to the Foreign, "Bold Forgetting" of One's Own, and the Return Home

65. The Founding of the Coming Holy in the Word

APPENDIX

The Interpretive Structure for the Said Poems

Editor's Epilogue

Translators' Notes

German-English Glossary

English-German Glossary

William McNeill is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is translator (with Jeffrey Powell) of Martin Heidegger's The History of Beyng and (with Julia Ireland) of Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" and Hölderlin's Hymn "Germania" and "The Rhine."

Julia Ireland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Whitman College. She is translator (with William McNeill) of Martin Heidegger's Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" and Hölderlin's Hymn "Germania" and "The Rhine."