THE MAIN INSPIRATION FOR DERRIDA'S "GESCHLECHT"-SERIES

HEIDEGGER, MARTIN.

Georg Trakl. Eine Erörterung seines Gedichtes. [In: Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken. 61. VII Jahrgang 1953. Drittes Heft].

Stuttgart, 1953. 8vo. Entire issue. Orig. printed wrappers. Back wrapper and last few leaves w. slightly bent corners and a few nicks, but otherwise very nice and clean. Pp. 226-258. (Entire volume: Pp. (201) - 300 + 1 leaf advertisement].

First edition of Heidegger's important exposition of the poet Georg Trakl. The essay has had great impact on modern interpretation of poetry, and in fact it was this essay which prompted the entire Geschlecht series of Derrida, which he himself often reiterated. The essay was later printed in "Unterwegs zur Sprache", 1959.

In this essay Heidegger searches for the poem of the poem of Georg Trakl, in order to therethrough determine the true essence of the entire poetical production of the poet. "Jeder grosse Dichter dichtet nur aus einem einzigen Gedicht Die Grösse bemisst sich daraus, inwieweit er diesem Einzigen so anvertraut wird, das ser es vermag, sein Dichtends Sagen rein darin zu halten." (p. 226). And so, Heidegger can work towards finding the poem of Trakl's poems, which unites the diversity of the poems into one essence, a being which transcends the single different poems, and which is the unity of the poet with that which is deceased.

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