Hölderlin's Philosophy of Nature by Tobias, Rochelle;

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This collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders what Friedrich Hölderlin's work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin’s ‘harmonious opposition’.

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In our age of climate change, the work of the decidedly philosophical poet Friedrich Hölderlin has gained renewed urgency with its emphasis on the forces of nature that produce life and at the same time threaten to devour it. At the heart of his work lies an understanding of nature and the role that consciousness plays within it. This responds to, but also revises, the concerns of 18th and 19th-century philosophy of nature.
This collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders what his work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin’s ‘harmonious opposition’. The collection shows that Hölderlin anticipates many of the concerns that motivate contemporary environmental thinking.
The contributions in the volume respond to this programmatic framework by taking Hölderlin's work in different -and sometimes even oppes-directions. What emerges from the collection is thus not Hölderlin's philosophy of nature but Hölderlin's nature-philosophies. (...) The success of the volume consists in its reconsideration of Hölderlin's poetry as indicative of a speculative project that is not yet complete, one that brings into articulation forms of nature that exceed and yet, some-how ground (or unground) the human being in exploratory and often contradictory ways (...).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Nature and Poetic Consciousness from Hölderlin to Rilke

Katrin Pahl, Raging with Care: The Poet’s Liquid Fire

Achim Geisenhanslüke, The Order of the Unbound: Time and History in Hölderlin’s ‘The Titans’

II. Hölderlin’s Rivers

Rochelle Tobias, The Untamed Earth: The Labour of Rivers in Hölderlin’s ‘The Ister’

Márton Dornbach, Hölderlin’s Local Abstraction: The Natural-Historical Sublime in ‘Voice of the People’

Bruno C. Duarte, Translating Centaurs: Notes on Hölderlin’s ‘The Life-Giving’

Luke Fischer, Hölderlin’s Mythopoetics: From ‘Aesthetic Letters’ to the New Mythology

Anja Lemke, The Transition Between the Possible and the Real: Nature as Contingency in ‘The declining fatherland ...’

Jacob Haubenreich, ‘My whole being fell silent, and read’: Peter Handke’s Hölderlin and Heidegger Reception and the New ‘New Mythology’

IV. The Place of Poetry

Csaba Szabó, Nature, Nurse, Khôra: Notes on the Poetics of Hölderlin’s Ode ‘Man’

Jan Mieszkowski, Not Rhythm

Thomas Schestag, allowed, disallowed

Notes on Contributors