Heidegger’s “Contributions to Philosophy”. On Hölderlin Kierkegaard Nietzsche 

Thank you warmly! What is presented here, in all brevity, is that Heidegger sees in these three thinkers a warning sign for us today. A coming darkness upon mankind. Why? To simplify: because we have lost our tragic sense and want to live in the fancy of total control and manageability of all that is - including ourselves.

@@JohannesNiederhauser I wasn't expecting a reply, so thank you very much. I must admit I had a sense from the piece of the disaster to come but hadn't picked up on the reasons for it. The notion of the poetic vision being the truest seems to ring true. I've noted in these days we are now living through that poetry is being performed as a salve for our collective anxiety. Perhaps poets are better tuned-in to the undercurrents, historical and contemporary. Hoelderlin's not forcing, reminds me also of trying to remember a favorite piece of music. It never comes when I try too hard, but when I let go the whole orchestra begins to play in my head.

@@dreamcatchersong Splendid comment! Yes, it all lies in letting go. Which is most difficult. Poets are ontologically attuned to that which is...

@@JohannesNiederhauser If it's of any help, here's a poignant excerpt from a 1984 book ('Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History' Professor Michael Allen Gillespie) on this subject: 'The history of the West is thus the history of a growing error (Irre), of the forgetfulness of Being and the growing predominance of being. The end of modernity, which is characterized by the final triumph of being in the doctrine of the will and nihilism, is thus the end of metaphysics and of the West itself. Being which had been understood as truth (alētheia), nature, God, and subjectivity, is understood at the end of modernity as nothing, as just another value or being. In this way the original experience of Being is completely forgotten and the impulse it gave the West is thus at its end. In this end the mystery and wonder that Being evoked are completely swallowed up in the self-certainty of subjectivity in and as the will to power and unfettered totalitarian world technology. Moreover, man who had already passed from hero-artist to philosopher to saint degenerates even further as scientist, worker and brute. The modern world and modern man are in this sense are the last phase in the withdrawal of Being and are characterized by an unprecedented darkness and barbarism, a darkness so black that it even lacks the light to understand itself as darkness and indeed conceives of itself as Enlightenment, as the brightest and most glorious epoch in human history.'

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In Nietzsche I would recommend his “Twilight of the Idols”. Especially the chapter “how the ideal world finally became a fable”

@@JohannesNiederhauser thank you