The Solid Letter
Readings of Friedrich Hölderlin


Essays
Editor
Stanford: Stanford University Press,
1999, xv + 512 pages
Cover Art: Håkan Rehnberg, Untitled (1998)
ISBN: 0-8047-2942-5 (cloth); 0-8047-2943-3 (paper)




Sources and Abbreviations
Contributors
xi
xiii
Introduction
Aris Fioretos
1

Part I

 
Measure for Measure: Hölderlin and the Place of Philosophy
Peter Fenves 25
The Calculation of the Poet
Jean-Luc Nancy
44
Poetry’s Courage
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
74
‘Winke’: Divine Topoi in Hölderlin, Heidegger, Nancy
Hent de Vries 94
Hölderlin’s Christ
Jean-François Courtine
121
Epistolary Writing, Fate, Language: Hölderlin’s ‘Hyperion’
Edgar Pankow 142

Part II

 
Figures of Duality: Hölderlin and Greek Tragedy
Arnaud Villani 175
Monstrous History: Heidegger Reading Hölderlin
Andrzej Warminski 201
Disowning Contingencies in Hölderlin’s ‘Empedocles’
Stanley Corngold 215
Reading the ‘Poetics’ After the ‘Remarks’
Christopher Fynsk 237
Ancient Sports and Modern Transports: Hölderlin’s Tragic Bodies
Rainer Nägele 247
Color Read: Hölderlin and Translation
Aris Fioretos
268

Part III

 
The Philosophy of Poetic Form: Hölderlin’s Theory of Poetry and the Classical German Elegy
Cyrus Hamlin 291
“Brod und Wein”: From the “Classical” Final Version
to the Later Version
Bernhard Böschenstein 321
Turns and Echoes: Two Examples of Hölderlin’s Poetics
Arne Melberg 340
Hölderlin’s Marginalization of Language
Hans-Jost Frey 356
The Highest
Thomas Schestag
375
Notes
415
Hölderlin in English: A Bibliography 483
Index of Names 507

 

 






Literary

The Truth about
Sascha Knisch


The Gray Book

Scholarly
Re: the Rainbow
The Solid Letter
Word Traces

In Other Languages

Berlin Above and
Below Ground


The Skulls
Stockholm noir
The Vanity Routines
A Book about Phantoms
The Critical Moment
The Book of Imparting