Destino, Poesía y Ser: El desarrollo de los pensamientos de Hölderlin y Nietzsche en la obra tardía de Martin Heidegger.

Abstract

As its title indicates, "Poetry, Destiny and Being: The development of the thoughts of Hölderlin and Nietzsche in the late work of Martin Heidegger", our work has always remained within the triple limit of exposing the metaphysical character of "will" in Nietzsche, of the sacred character of "nature" in Hölderlin and of the ontological character of "history" in Heidegger. Our research has been, for the most part, bibliographical, dealing mainly with the gathering and review of the specialized literature produced around the topic investigated. Finally, the task has been to think about all this in its relationship with the discussion on the contemporary experience of Western Nihilism as the end of traditional metaphysics. Can the end of metaphysics be thought in the direction of a new horizon of meaning for the human experience of Being? We argue that this is the question around which Heideggerian thought of the 1930s develops. The question about the essence of art and the essence of technique are ways of discussing this question, which Heidegger uses to indicate the meaning of his thinking about the future. In this troubled period of German history, the philosopher marked by the publication of Being and Time in the previous decade, resorts to reflection on the historical origin of something like a "people", that is, the ontological meaning of the event of the "human community" put into practice as a common opening of the reality of Being. The end of metaphysics is positive to the extent that it exposes the foundations of the "beginning" of every possible event of Being, even the Western one. In this sense, the question can be reformulated as follows: is there a future for human existence after the end of the West? Perhaps this "future" belongs only to Being and never to "man." But, in any case, it is in the "unknown" proper to the "to come" that Heidegger's hope of the "other beginning" for his "people" lives and this in the sense of a new opening of the totality of Being.

Date of Award	4 Dec 2023
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Jesus Adrian Escudero (Director)