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Jähnig

Dichtung und Geschichte

Beiträge Hölderlins zur Geschichtsphilosophie und zur Philosophie der Künste. Herausgegeben von Dieter Rahn.
Olms,  2019, 362 Pages

ISBN 978-3-487-15700-9


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The work is part of the series Germanistische Texte und Studien (Volume 98)
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englischThe philosopher Dieter Jähnig (1926-2016) was one of the most renowned representatives of his field of study and, after gaining his doctorate under Friedrich Beißner, engaged throughout his life with the work of Friedrich Hölderlin. His famous and extremely influential lecture from the 1980s on the philosophical importance of Hölderlin’s poetry is now available for the first time in book form to an wider public. Jähnig himself worked on the publication until shortly before his death, updating it where necessary. The lecture is based on his conviction that Hölderlin’s poetry must interest philosophers precisely as poetry, and that we ignore its true aspirations if we consider it merely as an aesthetic subject. What we then overlook is the express relationship of this poetry with history. Hölderlin himself said that the poetry he began to write after breaking off from work on his Empedocles drama “should relate directly to the fatherland or to the age.” The centre and fulcrum of this turn in his later poetry is a new understanding of language, revealed to Hölderlin by his translation of Sophocles. The language of the poem should make the inner structures of the historical action present through a “changing of tones”: history is not a chronological sequence within the framework of past and present but the constant alternation of these interlocking structures, which Hölderlin called the “triple life”. Dieter Jähnig demonstrates that this triadic construction is also typical of other artworks and justifies the claim that art can be taken seriously as a “language” of history.