DESCRIPTION: Christopher Yates is a professor of philosophy at James Madison University (USA) and holds a PhD in philosophy from Boston College. He specializes in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, particularly German idealism, phenomenology, and aesthetics. He is the author of The Poetic Imagination in Heidegger and Schelling (Bloomsbury, 2013), and his articles have appeared in journals such as Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Continental Philosophy Review, and Chronicle of Higher Education. His recent research focuses on the intersection of philosophy and art, including studies of identity, desire, technology, and self-deception in the works of Akiko Kotani, Wim Wenders, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Knut Hamsun. He also explores the role of imagination and longing in the functioning of reason. The article in question contains an analysis of Martin Heidegger's 1944-1945 lecture series entitled “Introduction to Philosophy: Thinking and Poetic Creation.” According to the author, this series provides a unique and insightful discussion of what Heidegger considers to be (1) the essential place of mitdenken and mitdichten in the fundamental nature of philosophizing, and (2) the precise relationship of these elements to the issues of human behavior, existence, and freedom. He argues that this explains Heidegger's difficult position regarding the place of “poeticizing” in the work of imagination and reason. His ongoing engagement with Nietzsche and Hölderlin is so concentrated here that we find a concrete clue that allows us to trace Heidegger's subtle but decisive focus on the connection between the inherently “productive” nature of thought and the sophisticated “projective” art of poetry. "Recalling the aims of the earlier course, the guiding interrelation becomes manifest from within the concrete particulars of poetic vision from the standing of this vision with respect to the clearing for all disclosedness. In short, we find here the origins of poetizing bracketed from the ready leap to inventive, instrumental reason. Thinking will always already have begun with a glance, a span, and thus a projection of dimensions enabled by what does and does not appear outright as opposed to a willful production assuring its authority on the basis of an ontology of will. Measurement precedes making, and indeed glance precedes maker" (p. 105).
Contents: 1. Poetizing as possibility and problem. 2. Toward guidance and reflection. 3. The dimension for every measuring act.
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