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Divine remembrance: Holderlin, Nancy, and the finitude of thought

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From: Philosophy Today
Date: 19991001
Author:Chapman, Helen C

At the end of his "productive" life in the period 1801-04, Holderlin turns his attention to translating both Sophocles and Pindar. Often these translations and accompanying Remarks are interpreted as a retreat from the earlier attempts to articulate the complex relationship between the theoretical and aesthetic concerns of his age.' However, I shall argue that they can be read as the logical climax of the journey of intellectual discovery which Holderlin had embarked on eight years earlier. Writing to Schiller in 1795, he comments that

I want to develop the idea of an infinite progress of ...

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