The Problem of Christ in the Work of Friedrich Hölderlin

Abstract

This study sets out to challenge the usual approach to the question of Hölderlin’s response to Christ, which focuses on no more than two or three late hymns, by tracing, through each major stage of Hölderlin’s work, a series of latent Christological debates. These debates, in which philosophy, theology, and poetry converge, represent Hölderlin’s engagement with the urgent intellectual issues of his day. This book, originally published in paperback in 1991 under the ISBN 978-0-947623-36-4, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme.