THE POINT OF VIEW FROM WHICH WE MUST VIEW ANTIQUITY

Fridrich Hölderlin

Abstract

It is a translation from German into Portuguese of the aforementioned text by Fridrich Hölderlin (dated 1799). It is part of the corpus hölderliano, in addition to the poems, the prose works, the letters and the tragedies (the various versions of The Death of Empedocles), a series of writings (often fragmented and unfinished) of aesthetic-philosophical content, in which it is discussed, above all, from the links between the archaic Greek mentality and the romantic spirit. The text now translated falls within this scope. The core of his journey (by the way, unfinished, but of extreme importance) unfolds from the notion of Bildung ("formation"), which is disposed in the context of the originality of each time/people (in this case, the romantic) and the heritage that pervades it (in this case, that of ancient Greece). The living environment between these two axes, in turn, is examined from the notion of Bildungstrieb ("training impulse"), the focus of the development of the text. The translation is part of a project to translate the other texts of Hölderlin’s work.