Of an Alien Homecoming

Charles Bambach is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is author of Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan, also published by SUNY Press.

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Acknowledgments
Preface

Introduction
I. Hölderlin as a "Transition"
II. Philosophical "Andenken": Hölderlin as the Voice of the Other Beginning
III. Who is Heidegger's Hölderlin?
IV. Language, "Ethos," and the Ethicality of Being

1. Hölderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine"
I. "Hölderlin" and the Great War
II. Norbert von Hellingrath and the Hölderlin Myth
III. Heidegger and the "Secret" Germania
IV. Hölderlin without History
V. "The Rhine": Heidegger and Originary Springing Forth
VI. "Physis" as "Poiesis": Beyng as Poetic Event
VII. The Mystery of "das Reinentsprungene" and the Vocation of the Poet
VIII. The Beyng of the Demigods

2. Heidegger's "Remembrance" Lectures
I. Hölderlin and "The National"
II. A Metapolitics of the Volk
III. Staging the "Remembrance" Lectures: The Vestibule
IV. The Greeting of the Wind
V. Jews, Greeks, and the Occlusion of the First Beginning
VI. The Time of the Festival and the Graeco-German Beginning
VII. Festival, Equinoctial Time, and the Balance of Equilibrium
VIII. Heidegger's Destinal Politics of a German National Mission
IX. The Passage to the Foreign and the Journey Homeward

3. Heidegger's "Ister" Lectures: Ethical Dwelling in the (Foreign) Homeland
I. "Hölderlin" as the Name for an Other Beginning of Thinking
II. Dwelling in the Intimacy of Truth: Oppositional Harmony and the Böhlendorff Logic
III. Translation and the Uncanny Essence of Human Being
IV. Tragedy and the Definition of the Human Being as a "Katastrophe"
V. The Language of Contradiction: Oxymoron and Tragic Manifestation
VI. Poet and River as Demi-Gods
VII. "At home is spirit not at the beginning"
VIII. Of Time and the River: Naming, Reversal, and Historical Dwelling
IX. German Hospitality?

4. Historical Interlude: Heidegger in 1945–1946
I. Heidegger's "Kahlschlag": The Poverty of Thinking
II. Heidegger's Revenge: War-Guilt, Retribution, and the Politics of Ressentiment
III. Hölderlin, the West, and Destiny

5. Heidegger in Dialogue with Hölderlin: "The Western Conversation"
I. Heidegger's "Conversation" with Hölderlin
II. The Schwung from the First to the Other Beginning
III. The Opening of "The Western Conversation"
IV. The Ister as Fateful Site of an Ordeal
V. Hölderlin, Destiny, and the German Bequest
VI. Poetic Geography and Destinal History: The German Danube
VII. The Bread and Wine Fragment and German Destiny

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