Book contents
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Heidegger and Literature: An Introduction to the Question
- I Literature and Poetry
- II Heidegger and Greek Literature
- III Heidegger and Literary Works
- 8 Places of Pain
- 9 The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
- 10 Heidegger and Blanchot
- 11 Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger
- 12 Travels in Greece
- 13 Hölderlin’s Heidegger, Heidegger’s Mourning
- Heidegger, Index of Works
- General Index
- References
12 - Travels in Greece
Heidegger and Henry Miller
from III - Heidegger and Literary Works
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
- Heidegger and Literary Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Heidegger and Literature: An Introduction to the Question
- I Literature and Poetry
- II Heidegger and Greek Literature
- III Heidegger and Literary Works
- 8 Places of Pain
- 9 The (Im)possibility of Homecoming
- 10 Heidegger and Blanchot
- 11 Thomas Mann and Martin Heidegger
- 12 Travels in Greece
- 13 Hölderlin’s Heidegger, Heidegger’s Mourning
- Heidegger, Index of Works
- General Index
- References
Summary
A 1965 note by Heidegger makes an unlikely connection with Henry Miller’s famed account of his travels to Greece at the outbreak of World War Two, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941). Heidegger reads this in light of his own “travelogue” of Greece, Sojourns (1962). Comparing the two through the lens of this note shows how both authors attempt what Heidegger calls a “phenomenology of the inapparent,” an attentiveness to what does not show itself in the phenomena at hand, something quite distinct from objective description. The chapter concludes with reflections on Germany’s relation to Greece at this time.
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- Heidegger and Literary Studies , pp. 319 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023