{"title":"Wozu Dichter","authors":"Jean-Luc Nancy","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1xhr6pt.16","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Hölderlin’s question is repeated time and time again. Its repetition confirms it as a desperate question, as well as ensuring an unending stream of answers. It is remarkable, however, that in isolating this question—in reducing it simply to its first two words in German, wozu Dichter [‘why poets’]—one risks rashly distancing oneself from Hölderlin’s thought. He does little to isolate this question himself, so that it might effectively be read in his text as a simple subordinate to the preceding clause:","PeriodicalId":342699,"journal":{"name":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Yearbook of Comparative Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1xhr6pt.16","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Hölderlin’s question is repeated time and time again. Its repetition confirms it as a desperate question, as well as ensuring an unending stream of answers. It is remarkable, however, that in isolating this question—in reducing it simply to its first two words in German, wozu Dichter [‘why poets’]—one risks rashly distancing oneself from Hölderlin’s thought. He does little to isolate this question himself, so that it might effectively be read in his text as a simple subordinate to the preceding clause: