The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and NietzscheIn The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called “the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry,” Weineck explores key texts from antiquity to modernity in order to understand why we have come to associate art with irrationality. She shows that the philosophy of madness concedes to the mad a privilege that continues to haunt the Western dream of reason, and that the theory of creative madness always strains the discourse on authenticity, pitching the controlled, repeatable, but restrained labor of philosophy against the spontaneous production of poetic texts said to be, by definition, unique. |
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... PHILOSOPHY , AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS 49 Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry 49 Translating Greece Antigone and Oedipus : Madness and Sign 58 64 CHAPTER THREE : NIETZSCHE : THE MARKETPLACES OF MADNESS 79.
... PHILOSOPHY , AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS 49 Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry 49 Translating Greece Antigone and Oedipus : Madness and Sign 58 64 CHAPTER THREE : NIETZSCHE : THE MARKETPLACES OF MADNESS 79.
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... translation . RP The Republic of Plato . Trans . with notes , an interpretive essay , and a new introduction by ... translations . WBD Friedrich Holderlin . Werke , Briefe , Dokumente . Nach der Kleinen Stuttgarter Hölderlin - Ausgabe ...
... translation . RP The Republic of Plato . Trans . with notes , an interpretive essay , and a new introduction by ... translations . WBD Friedrich Holderlin . Werke , Briefe , Dokumente . Nach der Kleinen Stuttgarter Hölderlin - Ausgabe ...
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... readers , all quotations from German scholarly works have been translated into English ; I have retained the original passages in the endnotes . INTRODUCTION FUTURE PERFECT CASSANDRA , OR THE BELATED TRUTH OF xii ABBREVIATIONS.
... readers , all quotations from German scholarly works have been translated into English ; I have retained the original passages in the endnotes . INTRODUCTION FUTURE PERFECT CASSANDRA , OR THE BELATED TRUTH OF xii ABBREVIATIONS.
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... translations of and his complex commentary on Sophocles ' tragedies , he rewrites Antigone's language as a language of " sacred madness , " and he perceives Oedipus's life as an " insane quest for a conscious- ness . " I will suggest ...
... translations of and his complex commentary on Sophocles ' tragedies , he rewrites Antigone's language as a language of " sacred madness , " and he perceives Oedipus's life as an " insane quest for a conscious- ness . " I will suggest ...
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