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William McNeill Department of Philosophy De Paul University April 7, 2006 Friday, 4:00pm-6:00pm Nursing, Room 127 My remarks will focus on the theme of poetic time and origin in Heidegger's 1942 lectures on Hölderlin's hymn "The Ister." According to Heidegger, HÖlderlin's hymn "poetizes the essence of poetizing," and does so by poetizing the distinctive temporality of this poetizing itself. The hymn begins with the word "Now*," which is the poetic naming of the distinctive moment in and as which the poem itself originates. Yet the temporality of this moment -- the temporality of origination itself -- Heidegger will show, is profoundly enigmatic. Indeed, his claim is that this enigmatic temporality -- insofar as it can be revealed at all -- can be revealed only in and through the poetry, and not through philosophical or conceptual knowledge. I shall try to shed light on this issue via Heidegger's 1936 essay "The Origin of the Work of Art," and with reference to Heidegger's claim that all art is in essence Dichtung, poetizing. What is at stake in this question of poetic origin is nothing less, I shall argue, than the question of techné -- of the possibility of technicity in general and of the temporality it implies. The question of techné and its "prosthetic" character, as we shall see, becomes the central theme in the film "The Ister."  |
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