ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Heidegger’s thinking regarding how Gelassenheit or “releasement,” as a receptive way of thinking and being, is the means by which the Unheimlichkeit or “unhomeliness” that follows from Gestell or “enframing” may be overcome. Through an understanding, study, and emulation of the way of being belonging to the poet, the greater mode of revealing that is poiēsis may occur. Examined is the idea of Gestell as a “danger” both as a limited mode of revealing that privileges mere calculative thinking and via the functioning of its totalizing essence that prevents the recognition of other alternatives for both engagement with the world and Dasein’s self-understanding. Explored is Heidegger’s thinking regarding the idea that the poet’s “saving grace” is a grace available in some measure to all of us, and that it is achieved via the preservation of the mystery of being, meditative thinking, aletheia, and a comportment toward existence that is characterized chiefly by Wissenschaft und Zӓrtlichkeit or “knowledge and tenderness.”
