UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY

INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES

29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP

THURSDAY, 23 May 2002

WORKSHOP

Unterwegs zur Dichtung –

On the Way to Poetry Heidegger and the Poets

Co-Ordinators:

Simon Thomas and Daniela Zimmermann

(Institute of Germanic Studies, London)

This workshop, which, for the first time in the UK, brings together a

diverse group of researchers working in the field of Heidegger studies,

seeks to explore the different paths currently followed by scholars

concerned with relations between poetry, language and thought in Heidegger’s

writing.

PROGRAMME

9.45   Welcome

10.00   ANTHONY STADLEN (London): 'Dreaming of M.H.'

10.45   HAVI CAREL (Essex): 'Heidegger and Nabokov - Language, Being and

Death: Silence and Nothingness in "Invitation to a Beheading"'

11.30   Coffee break

12.00   LUDWIG GEIJSEN (Maastricht): '"... aus der Dichtung eines

unendlichen Seyns". Zu den Bemühungen Heideggers um den Anfang'

12.45   SIMON THOMAS (London): 'The Concept of "elucidation" in Heidegger's

"Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung": Some Reflections on the Preface to

the Second Edition'

13.30   Lunch (own arrangements)

14.30   DANIELA ZIMMERMANN (London): 'Vom Ding zur Dichtung. Heideggers

Auffassung vom Ding und Rilkes "Dinggedichte"'

15.15   HÉLÈNE STAFFORD (Aston): 'The Thinker as Poet and the Poet as

Thinker: The Parallel Quests of Mallarmé and Heidegger'

16.00   Tea break

16.30   HERMAN RAPAPORT (Southampton): 'Heidegger, Hölderlin and Modernity'

17.15   Concluding Discussion

ALL WELCOME - NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY

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INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC STUDIES

University of London School of Advanced Study

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