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PART ONE POETIZING THE ESSENCE OF THE RIVERS THE ISTER HYMN
§1. The theme of the lecture course: remarks on Hölderlin’s hymnal poetry
a) The Ister hymn
b) Discussion of the opening line: “Now come, fire!”
§2. Hymnal poetry as poetizing the essence of the rivers II
§3. The metaphysical interpretation of art
§4. Höderlin’s poetry as not concerned with images in a symbolic or metaphysical sense. The concealed essence of the river
§5. The river as the locality of human abode
§6. The rivers as “vanishing” and “full of intimation” in “Voice of the People”
§7. The river as the locality of journeying and the journeying of locality
a) The river an “enigma” — poetic mindfulness and presuming
b) The unity of locality and journeying is not the clear and orderly unity or space and time determined in a calculative manner. Remarks on the modern determination of what is actual
REVIEW: Excursus on technology as the locus of “truth” that determines the essence of whatever is actual
§8. Tire questionableness of the metaphysical representation of space and time
§9. Becoming homely as the care of Höderlin’s poetry — the encoumer between the foreign and one’s own as the fundamental truth of history — Hölderlin’s dialogue with Pindar and Sophocles
PART TWO THE GREEK INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN BEINGS IN SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE
§10. The human being: the uncanniest of the uncanny. (The entry song of the chorus of elders and the first stationary song)
§11. The poetic dialogue between Hölderlin and Sophocles
§12. The meaning of deinon. (Explication of the commencement of the choral ode)
a) A remark concerning translation
b) On the translation of το δεινόν
§13. The uncanny as the growtd of human beings. (Continued explication of polla ta deina and pelein)
§14. Further essential determinations of the human being
a) Venturing forth in all directions-without experience. (Explication of the middle part of the second strophe)
b) Towering high above the site-forfeiting the site. The πόλις as site. (Explication of the middle part of the second antistrophe)
§15. Continued explication of the essence of the πόλις
a) The meaning of kalon and tolma
b) The open
§16. The expulsion of the human being as the most uncanny being. (The relation of the closing words to the introductory words of the choral song)
§17. The introductory dialogue between Antigone and Ismene
a) The essence of Antigone — the supreme uncanny. pathein to deinon
b) The equivocality of the poetic work
c) Knowledge of the hearth and delusion. The unsaid in what is said
§18. The hearth as being. (Renewed meditation on the commencement of the choral ode and on the closing words)
§9. Continued discussion of the hearth as being Ill
a) The belonging together of poetizing and thinking
b) Estia and being in Plato
§20. Becoming homely in being unhomely — the ambiguity of being unhomely. The truth of the choral ode as the innermost middle of the tragedy
PART THREE HÖLDERLIN’S POETIZING OF THE ESSENCE OF THE POET AS DEMIGOD
§21. Hölderlin’s river poetry and the choral ode from Sophocles — a historical becoming homely in each case
§22. The historically grounding spirit. Explication of the lines: “namely at home is spirit not at the commencement, not at the source. The home consumes it. Colony, and bold forgetting spirit loves. Our flowers and the shades of our woods gladden the one who languishes. The besouler would almost be scorched”
§23. Poetizing the essence of poetry — the poetic spirit as the spirit of the river. The holy as that which is to be poetized
a) Remembrance of journeying in the foreign — Heracles invited as guest by the Ister
b) The law of history: one’s own as what is most remote — the path to one’s ownmost as the most difficult
c) The enigmatic course of the Ister
§24. The rivers as the poets who found the poetic. upon whose ground human beings dwell
§25. The poet as the enigmatic “sign” who lets appear that which is to be shown. The holy as the fire that ignites the poet. The meaning of naming the gods
§26. Poetizing founding builds the stairs upon which the heavenly descend
a) “The children of the heavens”
b) The Ister and the Rhine
CONCLUDING REMARK — “IS THERE A MEASURE ON EARTH?”