Poetry, Language, Thought (Perennial Classics)
by Martin Heidegger
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There was one chapter about art that I read for an independent study in college. It was about 42 pages and took me, literally, all summer to read. I have never read so slowly in my life. I read every single sentence about two million times and the depth of understanding was not proportional to that number - it actually, in some cases, with some sentences, decreased. Heidegger is insanely circular and creates his own language, almost a code, which you then have to translate from his equally origi...more
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This is my third time through this collection of Heidegger's essays on poetry, language and thought. This is not a study of aesthetics. My interest is in H's understanding of the role of the artist in late modernity. Writing out of a phenomenological methodology (student of Husserl), Heidegger's portrayal of the role of the artist in society has a deep metaphysical ring, despite the author's implied intention to avoid that. Especially in the current state of commodification and profit/loss ...more
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Read in January, 2000
recommends it for:
Philosophers
This is a text I am always longing to re-read, but I have yet to find the time to return. I remember the text was illuminating, in a genuine, non-intellectual, perspective-changing fashion. "Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." Heideggar's is a philosophy of reconciliation, of dwelling, of earth and sky, of language speaking and man speaking only by responding. "But we do not want to get anywhere. We ...more
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Read in January, 1994
My first foray into this book was when I was in a touring theatre production. We stopped into a beautiful bookstore in Manhattan and I was drawn to the idea of discussing words and words and words. I must mention that I was 14 at the time and this was quite a labyrinth for my teen brain to navigate. I now have once again begun this text to further my journey into philology. I'll let you know what happens...
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Perhaps my favorite Heidegger. Much looser and more evocative, and also in some ways more confusing, the essays in this volume are still in a sense trying to tackle the same problem from Being and Time, but do so in a very different way. It has been a long time since I read them, but again, like all Heidegger, once you get used to the style, it is well worth the read.
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Read in January, 1990
Poetry Language Thought is as good as it gets. I had an experience with this book that lasted for life. One day to spend more time writing about it. I peer into it from time to time and think it is one of the ten most significant books ever read. Heidiggers mountain and quest for being stand there as a monument of spiritual heights. More later...
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Heidegger can be hard to parse. I struggled to stay awake through the book. He laboriously explored ideas that in the end didn't do anything to change my worldview. I've flipped through his Elucidations of Hölderlin's poetry, which seems more promising.
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Sarah gave me this as a going-away present, and I'm still on page 10. But, I'd like to think that each time I pick it up, I make a little more headway and I learn a little more from it. In time, I expect I may actually finish it. I wil let you know.
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Intriguing book, though not for Heidegger's poetry at the beginning! Read it for his conception of "aletheia," a Greek concept normally translated as "truth" but which Heidegger re-translates as "unconcealedness." I wrote a novella based on this idea.
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ada masanya buku ini aku bawa ke mana pun pergi [vade me cum!]
kumpulan esai ini bagus-bagus, dan sangat membantu saya dalam memahami "art", "techne" dan juga "building" dan "dwelling".
para arsitek mustinya punya buku ini.
kumpulan esai ini bagus-bagus, dan sangat membantu saya dalam memahami "art", "techne" dan juga "building" dan "dwelling".
para arsitek mustinya punya buku ini.
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Read in August, 2007
For the diss, but boy...It also should be read alongside Agamben's The Open. And, as so many recent interviews have posed, there's a chapter called, "What Are Poet's For?" Well, let's just see.
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recommends it for:
the existentialist mind
I have read most of this in the past, and i am working my way through it again. Phenomenal use of a philosophy of being. Remember: "No one sits like this rock sits - you rock, rock."
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i never have any clue what he's talking about until i read him for the umpteenth time...which unfortunately takes years, so this rating will probably change in another decade..
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Read in September, 2007
Worlds worlding worlds! Equipmental Equipment! Thingly things! Good sunny Saturday read. Maybe not good rainy Tuesday read.
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I'm reading this for the second or third time, and eventually I'm going to understand it. Or, a lot of it anyway
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"the Thing" and "The Origin of the Work of Art" were an arrow to my heart - take thy beak from out my breast!
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I have a copy of this but haven't read it yet-- I'd like to read Being and Time first.
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Re-re-reading. Ideas remain fascinating, prose (or translation) remains turgid.
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Read in May, 2003
this collection is amazing. i am constantly re-reading it.
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Read in January, 2006
Heidigger is hard to read, but worth the work
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