T. S. Eliot & Martin Heidegger

Poetically man dwells and Eliot was without question one of the strongest poets writing in English in the last 200 years. He was a contemporary of Heidegger’s and his politics and Heidegger’s seem to have converged at points. As an historian of religions, I am inevitably a cultural historian. Querying beyng, I see these two geniuses emerge independent of one another in varying degrees of harmony and dissonance. Heidegger teaches us to attend to significant detail and to derive meaning from context; I am not interested, therefore, in discovering if one thinker or the other is good, better, or best. Both proved themselves not only good but great. I attend to their various attunements and check them against my own.