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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... Phaedrus : Madly Made Meaning Philosophy's Mad Demon 19 19 32 45 +255 CHAPTER TWO : THE ABYSS ABOVE : HÖLDERLIN : MADNESS , PHILOSOPHY , AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry Translating ...
... Phaedrus : Madly Made Meaning Philosophy's Mad Demon 19 19 32 45 +255 CHAPTER TWO : THE ABYSS ABOVE : HÖLDERLIN : MADNESS , PHILOSOPHY , AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry Translating ...
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... Phaedrus , trans , with introduction and commentary by R. Hackforth , with the kind permission of Cambridge University Press . Versions of the following parts of this book have appeared in other publications : the reading of the Ion in ...
... Phaedrus , trans , with introduction and commentary by R. Hackforth , with the kind permission of Cambridge University Press . Versions of the following parts of this book have appeared in other publications : the reading of the Ion in ...
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... Phaedrus that " some of the highest goods have come to us by way of madness " ( 244a ) , i.e. , that a state of profound self - alienation10 can give rise to the most highly con- centrated expression of human existence , has proven so ...
... Phaedrus that " some of the highest goods have come to us by way of madness " ( 244a ) , i.e. , that a state of profound self - alienation10 can give rise to the most highly con- centrated expression of human existence , has proven so ...
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... Phaedrus . 1 will argue that both texts , to a different extent , strive to estab- lish an identity for philosophy as public speech that is decisively different from poetic speech in genesis , form , content , and aim . Moreover ...
... Phaedrus . 1 will argue that both texts , to a different extent , strive to estab- lish an identity for philosophy as public speech that is decisively different from poetic speech in genesis , form , content , and aim . Moreover ...
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... Phaedrus's famous myth of the soul , Socrates creates philosophy's original moment as a moment of erotic madness . Thus , Socrates saves for philosophy the unmedi- ated nature of mad knowledge ; erotic madness , however , in contrast to ...
... Phaedrus's famous myth of the soul , Socrates creates philosophy's original moment as a moment of erotic madness . Thus , Socrates saves for philosophy the unmedi- ated nature of mad knowledge ; erotic madness , however , in contrast to ...
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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...