Heidegger in the Literary World
Variations on Poetic Thinking

PART I: IN-BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

Text, Exegesis and Salvation

• Heidegger and the Critics, Julia A. Ireland
• Heidegger as Introduction to Talmud, Elad Lapidot
• Reactionary Nostalgia: Badiou, Heidegger and the Poets, Luca Di Blasi
• In the Outhouse of Being: What Satires Tell Us about Heidegger’s Philosophy, Dieter Thomä

Displacing the House of Being

• “Beth – That Is the House”: Paul Celan’s Hebrew Dwelling, Simone Stirner
• Meridians of Truth: From Heidegger’s Geography of Being to Celan’s Topology of Language, Nassima Sahraoui
• Handke’s Doubt: Slow Homecoming in Conversation with Heidegger, Florian Grosser

PART II: LITERARY RECEPTION POLITICS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Hölderlin and the Poetics of the States

• “The Right to Be”: Stevens and Heidegger on Thinking and Poetising, Frederick Dolan
• “Victory Is an Illusion of Philosophers and Fools”: Heidegger, Faulkner and the Ruination of the Proper, Benjamin Brewer
• “The Gods Are Never Quite Forgotten”: John Ashbery’s Heidegger, Luke Carson
• Heidegger’s Mistress? Meditations on Dasein in David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress, Tim Personn

Crossing the Boundaries of the Other: History, Time and Silence

• The Impossible Death of Julia de Burgos: Reading “¡Dádme mi número!” at the Limits of Dasein, Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
• Lezama Lima and the Resurrection of the Image (An Ontological Enigma), Mauricio González
• The Boundary of Ontological Time and its Crossing: Shūzō Kuki’s Analysis of Japanese Poetry as an Unrealised Dialogue with Heidegger, Yohei Kageyama
• Heidegger and Russian Revolutionary Nonsense, Jeff Love

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