Heidegger’s Lecture Series ‘Hölderlin’s Hymn “Remembrance”’

A new series of 10 Zoom webinars led by Dr. Alfred Denker.

Fifth session: Hölderlin’s Hymn Remembrance, 75-91

In the winter semester 1941-1942 Heidegger gave a lecture series in Freiburg on Hölderlin’s hymn “Remembrance”. In this lecture series, developing his earlier engagement with Hölderlin’s poetry in the mid 1930s, Heidegger gives a close reading of Hölderlin’s hymn in relation to the same themes of thinking and poeticising towards a retrieval of original Greek thought which occupied Heidegger in his contemporaneous works at this time.

As the lecture course explains, remembrance (in German, Andenken), is a particular kind of thinking (Denken), a “commemorative thinking” that “must remain unknown to every doctrine of thinking hitherto.”

This webinar is a reading seminar. Every session we will read passages selected by the seminar head from the text. These selections will make the train of thought clear and focus on the most important passages in the text. Participants are invited to formulate questions and remarks that can be discussed during the sessions. They can also choose passages that they would like to discuss. The text will be made available to participants as a PDF.

Fee: 120 Euro for all sessions, 85 Euro for patrons, 60 Euro for students and those of low income, or 15 Euro per session. You can attend your first session for free. Participants can receive a certificate of participation.

For more information or to register please contact Alfred Denker: alfred.denker@yahoo.com