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Within the vast reception history of Martin Heidegger’s philosophical thought poets, novelists, and playwrights have occupied a central place. This collection of essays opens up new perspectives by tracing the manifold, often surprising ways in which Heideggerian concepts, motifs, and concerns have been taken up in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century. In their contributions, scholars from the Americas, Asia, and Europe explore intellectual constellations between Heidegger and selected literary figures such as John Ashbery, Julia de Burgos, Paul Celan, Elfriede Jelinek, and Velimir Khlebnikov. The volume unveils the immense creativity that crystallizes in these poetic and literary traces and disseminations of Heidegger’s thinking. Hence, it points to new and fruitful ways to critically intervene in current philosophical and literary debates.

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Heidegger in the Literary World shows us that we might do well in taking Heidegger’s cue and treating literature and poetry with the same care and, indeed, reverence he pays to Trakl, Rilke, and again, most of all, to Hölderlin. The editors invoke Jacques Derrida to define the ethics or politics of reading at work in the volume, but they could equally well have stayed with Heidegger to outline such principles of reading. That is, the aspiration to reach that height of critique which Heidegger called Auseinandersetzung. * German Studies Review *

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Florian Grosser teaches in the Visual & Critical Studies Program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in 20th century continental philosophy, political and social philosophy, and aesthetics. He is the author of the monographs Revolution denken. Heidegger und das Politische 1919-1969 (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2011; 2nd edition 2020) and Theorien der Revolution (Hamburg: Junius, 2013; revised 2nd edition 2018). Nassima Sahraoui is a researcher based in Germany. Her areas of research are political theory, history of philosophy, and the intersections between literature and philosophy. She is the author of Dynamis. Eine materialistische Philosophie der Differenz (2021) and is preparing another monograph on Forms of Resistance.

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