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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... AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry Translating Greece 58 +90 49 49 Antigone and Oedipus : Madness and Sign 64 CHAPTER THREE : Nietzsche : The MarketPLACES OF MADNESS Introduction.
... AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry Translating Greece 58 +90 49 49 Antigone and Oedipus : Madness and Sign 64 CHAPTER THREE : Nietzsche : The MarketPLACES OF MADNESS Introduction.
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... Oedipus's fall , as Holderlin reads it , is brought about by his " insane quest for a consciousness . " 20 Hegel , it is rumored , feared that he would go mad while writing the Phenomenology of Spirit , a profoundly self - reflective ...
... Oedipus's fall , as Holderlin reads it , is brought about by his " insane quest for a consciousness . " 20 Hegel , it is rumored , feared that he would go mad while writing the Phenomenology of Spirit , a profoundly self - reflective ...
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... Oedipus complex as the most obvious example — they are nonetheless forces of the individual psyche as well as of the human psyche in general . Thus , the unconscious differs from " the ' genius ' of former times " as much as it ...
... Oedipus complex as the most obvious example — they are nonetheless forces of the individual psyche as well as of the human psyche in general . Thus , the unconscious differs from " the ' genius ' of former times " as much as it ...
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... Oedipus's life as an " insane quest for a conscious- ness . " I will suggest that Holderlin's work recreates Antigone and Oedipus . as figurations of ancient and modern philosophy , a project immeasurably more hazardous than Socrates ...
... Oedipus's life as an " insane quest for a conscious- ness . " I will suggest that Holderlin's work recreates Antigone and Oedipus . as figurations of ancient and modern philosophy , a project immeasurably more hazardous than Socrates ...
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... Oedipus's murder of his father emerges as an attempt to redefine his existence on a universal plane , a vision of a self - created life without physical origin or constraint . In my read- ing , Oedipus and Antigone emerge as figurations ...
... Oedipus's murder of his father emerges as an attempt to redefine his existence on a universal plane , a vision of a self - created life without physical origin or constraint . In my read- ing , Oedipus and Antigone emerge as figurations ...
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Page 3 - As for a common language, there is no such thing; or rather, there is no such thing any longer; the constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established...