Abstract
This paper is an interpretation of Heidegger's first lecture on Hölderlin. The lecture centers on how a national community is created and maintained, and Heidegger's belief is that poetry plays as decisive role. Poets are hailed as "demigods" between the sphere of divinity and that of people. Poetry-writing embodies the message of God and passes it to the people, and achieves the connection between them; hence a national community is generated.
First Page
197
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Zhenhua. 2019. "Poetry and the Generation and Maintenance of National Community: The Core Issue and Line of Thinking in Heidegger's First Lecture on Hölderlin." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (3): pp.197. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss3/10
