Heidegger and Leonard Cohen: “You Want It Darker”

This article seeks to ask the question of Leonard Cohen as a poet in terms what Heidegger calls destitute or desperate times (dürftigerZeit) his WozuDichter (“What Are Poets For”)? requires reflection on voice and attunement, including music eros along with nothing less Heideggerian than thought death, reading appears be relation religious—for us? for him? Christ? ”forsaken, almost human”—but also painfully reflexive: ”we kill flame”; dark we face them, together alone.