Heidegger's Conversations: Toward a Poetic Pedagogy

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction: Conversations, with Heidegger
Conversations, between 1944 and 1954
(Non-)Representational, (Non-)Metaphysical Thinking
Conversational, Poetizing Pedagogy
The Conversation
Toward Thinking, Otherwise
The Five Conversations
Conversational Ways
Chapter 1 The “Triadic Conversation”: Non-Oppositional Pedagogy
Conversational Context
The Scientist, the Scholar, and the Guide
On a Country Path, as Night Falls
Pedagogical Techniques
Pedagogical Transition(s)
Chiasmus
Science as Technology: Metaphysical Objectivity
The Soul and Its Faculties: Metaphysical Subjectivity
Night Falls at the Crossing: Learning (Non-)Metaphysical Thinking Together
Philosophical Anthropology: Moving Beyond Metaphysical Subjectivity
The Jug: Moving Beyond Metaphysical Objectivity
Collaborative Poetizing
The Question Concerning (Non-)Authoritarian Politics
Chapter 2 The “Tower Conversation”: Mistaking Pedagogy
Conversational Context
Things and Characters
Across Days and Fields
The Mistake as Pedagogical
Mistaking Pedagogy
Bidirectionality
Meeting at the Tower
Walking up to the Country Path
Walking on the Country Path
Meeting (the Stranger) on the Country Path
Poetizing Mistakes
Chapter 3 The “Evening Conversation”: Communal Pedagogy
Conversational Context
The Younger Man and the Older Man
Imprisoned, in the Evening
Learning without a Teacher
Healing Pedagogy
Standstill
Evil and Healing
Who is the Human Being?
Building Community: The Pedagogy of Poetizing
Healing as a “We”
Chapter 4 The “Western Conversation”: Poetizing Pedagogy
Conversational Context
The (Explicit) Characters
On the Banks of the (Western) River
By the “Ister”
On a Spring Evening
Pedagogical Techniques
Poetic Pedagogy
Conversational and Musical Interpretation
Pedagogical Topographies of (Musical) Interpretation
Reversal: Resonating and Counter-Resonating
Affect: Non-Metaphysical Love
Remembrance: The Destiny of the (German) People
Openness to the (Poetic) Other
Silence: Poetic Punctuation
Learning to Poetize the (East and) West
Chapter 5 “From a Conversation of Language”: Endangering Pedagogy
On East-West Conversation
Conversational Context
(Three) Professional Teachers Meet
Sheltered, by the Western Tradition
Pedagogical Techniques
Endangering Pedagogy
(Not) at Home
Prelude: Iki and Danger
(The Questioner’s) Intellectual Autobiography
The Eastern World
Iki
Rashomon
No-Play
Language (is the House of Being)
(Conversational) Hermeneutics
The (Same?) Conversation
Dangerous Conclusions
Conclusion: Learning from/through/beyond Heidegger
Notes
Bibliography
Index