Holderlin's Hymn "The Ister"

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by Martin Heidegger,

Translated by William McNeil and Julia Davis

Indiana University Press

Due/Published September 1996, 200 pages, cloth

ISBN 0253330645

The text of Heidegger's 1942 lecture on Hölderlin's "The Ister" pays particular attention to the poet's dialogue with Greek tragedy. Revealing of Heidegger's thought of the period are his discussions of the meaning of the "political" and "national," the benefits of dialogue with the "foreign," and the nature of translation and interpretation.