Book contents
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Heidegger and Literature: An Introduction to the Question
- I Literature and Poetry
- II Heidegger and Greek Literature
- III Heidegger and Literary Works
- 8 Places of Pain
- 9 The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
- 10 Heidegger and Blanchot
- 11 Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger
- 12 Travels in Greece
- 13 Hölderlin’s Heidegger, Heidegger’s Mourning
- Heidegger, Index of Works
- General Index
- References
9 - The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
Heidegger, Celan, and the Aporia of Language
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Book contents
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Heidegger and Literature: An Introduction to the Question
- I Literature and Poetry
- II Heidegger and Greek Literature
- III Heidegger and Literary Works
- 8 Places of Pain
- 9 The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
- 10 Heidegger and Blanchot
- 11 Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger
- 12 Travels in Greece
- 13 Hölderlin’s Heidegger, Heidegger’s Mourning
- Heidegger, Index of Works
- General Index
- References
Summary
My chapter explores the relationship – both personal and philosophical – between Heidegger and Paul Celan, a relationship that is defined in all its various senses in terms of silence, denial, evasion, and responsibility. Against a consideration of the intimate ties between philosophy and poetry, I look at two different but related themes. In the first half of my chapter I offer a biographical/historical account of Heidegger’s and Celan’s interactions in postwar Germany during the 1950s and 60s. I then perform a close reading of one of Celan’s notoriously difficult poems – “Die Schliere”/“Streaks” – that serves as a kind of dialogue with Heidegger and as an intimate conversation with him about the topics of postwar silence, evasion, and blindness.
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