2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
German Romantic poet who wrote Hyperion and the Hymns — and who went mad at 36, spending the last 36 years in a tower in Tübingen — whose poetry is for Heidegger the primary site where the Greek gods' departure and the possibility of their return is mourned and anticipated.
Friedrich Nietzsche's four early essays (1873–1876) — including 'David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer,' 'On the Utility and Liability of History for Life,' 'Schopenhauer as Educator,' and 'Richard Wagner in Bayreuth' — attacking German cultural complacency and identifying models for genuine culture.