Splendore: su Heidegger e Mörike

This paper is part of the strand of studies originated from the Heidegger/Staiger debate about Mörike’s famous poem Auf eine Lampe. Focusing on Heidegger’s interpretation of the verb scheinen – an inapparent shining –, light is shed on a conjunction of key concepts (poetry, thought, light, beauty, space-time) of Heidegger’s thought, highlighting the fruitfulness of his reading of Mörike. More specifically, the first part briefly reconstructs Mörike’s presence in Heidegger’s pages, suggesting a more intimate connection with the thought of the Geviert. The two central sections, on the other hand, investigate the meaning of the lamp’s shining (since it is unlit), and then conclude with an analysis of the spacetime structure that makes room for beauty within the poetic composition.