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f“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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