Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 12-2021
Abstract
This essay poses and responds uniquely to the following crucial questions: Does Rilke’s poetry poetize the event of Being for Dasein? Does Rilke indicate that the human being can yet achieve such a mode of “historical” existence in relation to the Earth or the holy? Heidegger responds to the first query in the affirmative; Rilke does poetize this event, albeit through a “tempered” and somewhat traditional view of Western metaphysics. To the second query, it appears that Heidegger responds in a slightly cryptic and ambiguous manner, and to clarify this response, I turn to Heidegger’s interpretation of Rilke’s “Angel” as a prophetic “metaphysical” figure of futural hope.
Recommended Citation
Magrini, James, "Heidegger on the “Futural” Poet Rilke Poetizing the Essential Truth of Being?" (2021). Philosophy Scholarship. 49.
https://dc.cod.edu/philosophypub/49