Friedrich Hölderlin's poetry marks a mesmerizingly profound engagement with the philosophers of his time. Hölderlin performs his response to philosophers like Kant, Schelling, Fichte, and Hegel in his poetry. With the help of philosopher Christopher Satoor, we begin to enlighten ourselves on Hölderlin and his ability to help us contend with German Idealism, Romanticism, the Enlightenment and our own era.