The Place of the Critique of Judgment in Heidegger’s Thought: Hölderlin and the Saying of the Holy

Abstract

Although the texts and courses that Martin Heidegger devotes to Kant’s philosophy are limited to the analysis and interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason, this article argues that his work also underlies a particular reading of the Critique of Judgment that can be seen in essays such as the 1935 lecture “The Origin of the Work of Art”. The uniqueness of this reading would be based on Heidegger’s assumption of the vision projected in Hölderlin’s poetry on the relationship between Greece and modernity. For despite the influence of the Critique of Judgment on Hölderlin’s poetic work, he would have ended up distancing himself from Kant’s position due to the task he assigns to the modern poet in his difference and at the same time necessary link with the Greek poetic saying.