Abbreviations 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 Postscript Notes Bibliography Index.