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“Poetically Man Dwells,” an essay by Martin

Heidegger, was published in the anthology,

Poetry, Language and Thought, by HarperCollins

as part of the Colophon series in 1975. The

phrase itself, however, is taken from a late poem

by Friedrich Hölderlin. While many scholars

break Heidegger's work into two periods: his

earlier work including Kant and the Problem

of Metaphysics and Being and Time, and his

latter work including his essay on humanism (an

apparent shift to the consideration of the impact

of technology on human beings) and Poetry,

Language and Thought, we reject this bifurcation

of Heidegger's work. Within the context of the

NyghtVision Methodology, "Poetically Man

Dwells" plays an important role in explicating

the inner structure of Being and Time. As part of

our emergent series, Poetically Man Dwells, the

essay that follows seeks to explore, elucidate, and

convey the philosophical underpinnings of the

NyghtVision Methodology. — Falcon

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