Educational Implications for Heideggers Views On Poetry And Thinking E

Educational Implications for Heideggers Views On Poetry And opinion ABSTRACT I discuss some of the educational implications emerging from Heideggers views on poetry, thinking, and language. Specifically, Heideggers views on the neighborhood between poetry and thinking suggest that almost accepted methods of tenet poetry are in error, because they ignore this close relation. The importance of this relation is presented and clarified. I then discuss the implications of Heideggers view for teaching poetry. Heideggers series of three lectures, later published as The Nature of terminology has some very significant implications for education. (1) In this paper I snap on the second lecture. In opening his second lecture, Heidegger invites his listeners to think most the nature of language. Such thinking, he explains, has little to do with the quest for acquaintance in the intuitions. He cautions his listeners about the danger arising from the domination of method in scientific stu dy and discourse. He cites Nietzsche who stated that what characterizes contemporary science is the advantage of scientific method over science. By contrast, thinking, including thinking about the nature of language, has to do with a quite unique region in which eyeshot exists. It is not dominated by or based on a method. Thinking is not even governed by a specific theme. In todays science, Heidegger holds, even the theme of study is a part of the method. The field of reckoner Sciences, with which Heidegger was not well versed, since it flourished -- exploded -- after his death, is a poignant theoretical account of a contemporary science whose theme is controlled by method. Heideggers description of science has proved quite true in the four decades s... ... 1997). (5) Pablo Neruda, For All to sack out in Pablo Neruda, Winter Garden, trans. William ODaly (Port Townsend, Wash. Copper canon Press, 1986) p.19.(6) Martin Heidegger, Letter on humanism in Basic Writings, ed. David F arrell Krell (New York Harper & Row, 1977) p. 210.(7) Pablo Neruda, Spain in the Heart Hymn to the Glories of the large number at War, trans. Richard Schaaf (Washington Azul Editions, 1993). See Pablo Neruda, Memoirs (Middlesex, England Penguin, 1978), pp. 125-126. (8) Heidegger, The Nature of Language, p. 93.(9) Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems, 1946-1991 (Fort Worden, Wash Copper Canyon Press, 1992). p. 343.(10) Martin Heidegger, Aristotles Metaphysics, Bk. IX Ch.1-3 On the Essence and Actuality of Force, trans. Walter Brogan and Peter Warnek (Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press, 1995), p. 109.