Poetry and philosophy

A Heideggerian meditation on the onto-theo-logical concept of God and the poetic understanding of the divine

Abstract

The aim of this meditation is to explain the sense in which the philosopher ponders being, while the poet names the sacred. It sets out from a critique of the onto-theological concept of God, which was destined to reveal its own inadequacy for understanding religious-mystical experience. Later, the language of metaphysics was counterposed to that of poetry, understood as the first word that melds the world and all things in its being. After elaborating the phenomenological description of the vital attitudes that give rise to philosophy and poetry, the essay shows the latter’s primacy for manifesting ontological meaning and the events of the divine (God and gods).