Unpoeticity

However, in our zeal to eliminate the ‘unpoeticity’ of the translation, we have also got rid of an important asset of the original—its characteristic roughness.

Thus, it is the issue of heritage that weighs on the poetic production of the 1980s. But, as the persistence of certain motifs of realistic “unpoeticity” demonstrate, this inheritance that leans more toward the esthetic than the engagé did not lead to the hermetic and hermeticizing ivory tower.

In Heidegger, we become losers of the poetic in the world whose unpoeticity “derives from a curious excess of frantic measuring and calculating” (Heidegger 2001: 226), that is to say from finitude, from the very possibility of quantification. The degree of poeticity seems to be increasing in Heidegger with the decrease of calculation, evaluation and predictability.