Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger's Verse

by Martin Heidegger, Eoghan Walls (Translation)

Heidegger's turn to poetry in the latter half of his career is well known, but his own verse has to date received relatively little attention. How can we understand Heideggerian poetics without a thorough reading of the poet's own verse? Thought-Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heidegger's collected works, where the reader can read the German version alongside the English text. Musical, allusive, engaged deeply with humanity's primordial relationships, the Gedachtes or thought-poems here translated show Heidegger's language at its most beautiful, and open new ways to conceive of the relationship between language and being.

445 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 7, 2021

About the author

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification. His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact far beyond philosophy, for example in architectural theory (see e.g., Sharr 2007), literary criticism (see e.g., Ziarek 1989), theology (see e.g., Caputo 1993), psychotherapy (see e.g., Binswanger 1943/1964, Guignon 1993) and cognitive science (see e.g., Dreyfus 1992, 2008; Wheeler 2005; Kiverstein and Wheeler forthcoming).