Nostalgia de la muerte de Xavier Villaurrutia dentro de la tradición filosófica en lengua alemana: Heidegger, Rilke, Hegel, Schiller

Abstract

One of the greater influences on Xavier Villaurrutia’s poetry was the philosophical work of Martin Heidegger. Also, among the Mexican poet’s favorite readings was The notes of Malte Laurids Brigge, a novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, which is conceptually connected with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectical philosophy and Friedrich Schiller’s humanism. The present work is an interpretation of Nostalgia de la muerte by Villaurrutia based on the concepts of “turn towards the open” (Heidegger), “personal death” (Rilke), “subject as the absolute and as nothingness” (Hegel) and “aesthetic education of the human” (Schiller).