La prossimità dell'inaccessibile. Su Heidegger e Rimbaud

This paper examines the relationship between Martin Heidegger and Arthur Rimbaud, with particular reference to the Heideggerian text entitled "Rimbaud vivant", which dates to 1972 but was published only in 1976. In this writing, Heidegger refers to the concept of "event", in which being withdraws itself from that which is present. At issue are also the concepts of "the future ones", "restraint", and "Relation", which assume considerable importance in the mid-1930s and in particular in the "Contributions to Philosophy". Finally, Heidegger holds that poetic language should say "the proximity of the inaccessible", i.e. the withdrawal of being, by bearing silence.