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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... Socrates might have known , but he decided against his carnal love for the boys as well as against secure knowledge ... Socrates ' last days , sees him . listen to the voice that says , " Play music ! " It might also have said ...
... Socrates might have known , but he decided against his carnal love for the boys as well as against secure knowledge ... Socrates ' last days , sees him . listen to the voice that says , " Play music ! " It might also have said ...
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... Socrates who insists that to know anything is to know its op- posite as well . He who knows most about sophrosune would know most about madness as well , and the philosopher who would ban the imitative poets from his fictional republic ...
... Socrates who insists that to know anything is to know its op- posite as well . He who knows most about sophrosune would know most about madness as well , and the philosopher who would ban the imitative poets from his fictional republic ...
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... Socrates , still the philosopher par excellence ; for Holderlin , whom Heidegger called " the poet of poetry " ; and for Nietzsche who — writing , celebrating and condemning in turn both philosophy and poetry — ultimately used the ham ...
... Socrates , still the philosopher par excellence ; for Holderlin , whom Heidegger called " the poet of poetry " ; and for Nietzsche who — writing , celebrating and condemning in turn both philosophy and poetry — ultimately used the ham ...
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... Socrates , is an act highly susceptible to that " other madness , " even though the organized presentation of self - reflecting thought has come to be thought of as the very paradigm of reason . Sass quotes Nietzsche in the epigraph of ...
... Socrates , is an act highly susceptible to that " other madness , " even though the organized presentation of self - reflecting thought has come to be thought of as the very paradigm of reason . Sass quotes Nietzsche in the epigraph of ...
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... Socrates , is the question ti esti , what is ... ? , replacing , according to Heidegger's powerful analysis , the question of being itself . In arguably its most significant form , it concerns its own nature , as philosophy . What is ...
... Socrates , is the question ti esti , what is ... ? , replacing , according to Heidegger's powerful analysis , the question of being itself . In arguably its most significant form , it concerns its own nature , as philosophy . What is ...
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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...