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Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy

Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy

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Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.

Reading Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts together for the first time, Heidegger's Conversations elaborates not only what Heidegger thought but how he did so by attending to the philosophical possibilities of the genre of these under-studied texts written between 1944 and 1954. Though he wrote little on the topic of teaching and learning explicitly, Katherine Davies shows Heidegger performed an implicit poetic pedagogy in his conversations that remains to be recognized. Heidegger launched an experimental attempt to enact a learning of non-representational, non-metaphysical thinking by cultivating a distinctly collaborative sensitivity to the call of the poetic. Davies illustrates how each conversation emphasizes a particular pedagogical element-non-oppositionality, making mistakes, thinking in community, poetic interpretation, and the dangers of such pedagogy-which together constitute the developmental arc of these texts. Whether Heidegger is revising or reinforcing his own earlier pedagogical practices, Davies argues that attending to the dramatic staging of the conversations offers a distinct vantage point from which to contend with Heidegger's philosophy and politics in the post-war period.

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BrandState University of New York Press
Pub dateMar 2, 2025
ISBN-101438499124
ISBN-139781438499123
Paperback312.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions9 × 0.7 × 6 in
Weight1 lb
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