Poverty of the being. Eugen Fink´s Translation of Duino Elegies into a philosophical reflexion

Abstract

This articles presents at the first time the unpublished fragments of a book Eugen Fink wanted to write on Rilke’s poetry. In these texts Fink reflects to which extent he as a philosopher can handle with the work of a poet.

He thinks about the status of poetry in general as well as of the elegy in particular. A further part of the fragments are concrete analyses about Rilke’s Duineser Elegien and his Sonetten an Orpheus.

Keywords

• Eugen Fink
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Duino Elegies