Martin Heidegger in Unofficial Russian Poetry of the 1970s - Early 1980s

This work is devoted to one bright, but at the same time little-studied phenomenon not only in Russian poetry and philosophy, but also in Russian culture as a whole - namely, a specific form of unity between philosophy, theology, and poetry that had developed by the early 1970s in the unofficial milieu of Leningrad and was associated with the name of Martin Heidegger. In the 1970s, Heidegger was the most popular contemporary Western philosopher among Soviet nonconformists. The paper shows the reasons for this popularity, as well as the key directions of reception, both philosophical and poetic. The paper is naturally divided into three parts: a theoretical one, which justifies the choice of approach and critically analyses the notion of "philosophical lyric"; a historical and literary one, which reconstructs the "hermeneutic space" of the "Second Culture" of Leningrad in the 1970s; and an analytical one, which examines the approaches of Heidegger's poetic reception of several specific poets of the "Second Culture".