William McNeill is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University.

Julia A. Ireland is an Assistant Professor at Whitman College. She has translated (with William McNeill) Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" (IUP, 1996).

Translators' Foreword

Preliminary Remark

Introduction

1. Outline of the Beginning, Manner of Procedure, and Approach of the Lecture Course

Part One

"Germania"

Chapter One

Preliminary Reflections: Poetry and Language

2. Provisional Path of Approach to the Poem as a Piece of Text

3. Entering the Domain in which Poetry Unfolds its Power

4. Concerning the Essence of Poetry

5. The Question Concerning the 'We' in the Turbulence of the Dialogue

6. Determining the 'We' from out of the Horizon of the Question of Time

7. The Linguistic Character of Poetry

Chapter Two

The Fundamental Attunement of Poetizing and the Historicality of Dasein

8. Unfolding the Fundamental Attunement

9. Historical Time and Fundamental Attunement

10. The Locale of Dasein Founded in "Germania" within the Horizon of the Heraclitean Thought

11. Transitional Overview and Summary: Revisiting the Domains Opened Up Thus Far as a Way of Determining More Precisely the Intent of the Lecture Course

Part Two

"The Rhine"

Transitional Remark

The Question Concerning What is 'Innermost' in a Poetic Work as a Question of the Opening Up and Founding of Beyng in the Each Time New Prevailing of its Fundamental Attunement

Chapter One

The Demigods as Mediating Middle between Gods and Humans. The Fundamental Attunement of the Poem. The Beyng of the Demigods and the Calling of the Poet

12. Thinking the Essence of the Demigods in the Founding Projection of the Poet

13. Strophe I. The Point of Departure for the Telling, and the Composure through which it is Experienced. The Apprehending of a Destiny

14. Strophes II and III. The River Rhine as Destiny. Hearing its Origin and Assuming its Vocation

Chapter Two

A More Incisive Review. Poetizing and Historical Dasein

15. The Task of the Lecture Course: Entering the Domain in Which Poetry Unfolds its Power, and the Opening Up of its Actuality

16. The Fundamental Approach in which our Interpretation Moves, Taking "Germania" as our Point of Departure

17. The Interpretation in Detail. The River Rhine as Demigod

18. Interim Reflection on the Metaphysics of Poetizing

Chapter Three

That which has Purely Sprung Forth as Strife in the Middle of Beyng

19. Strophe IV. The Enigma of what has Purely Sprung Forth and the Origin of Poetizing

20. Strophes V to IX. Unfolding the Essence of what has Purely Sprung Forth in the Conflict between Springing Forth and Having Sprung-Forth

21. Strophes X Through XIII. Thinking the Beyng of the Demigods Starting From the Gods and From Humans

22. Strophe XIV. Retaining the Mystery. The Thinking of the Poet Grounded in the Poetizing of the Thinker

23. Strophe XV. The Poet as the Other

24. The Metaphysical Locale of Hölderlin's Poetizing

Editor's Epilogue

Translators' Notes

Glossary

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