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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... called " the great internment " inside or outside the asylum . It presents an idea of madness that moves within the thinking of reason , its scope and its limits — in a word , within philosophy . More specifically , I seek to elucidate ...
... called " the great internment " inside or outside the asylum . It presents an idea of madness that moves within the thinking of reason , its scope and its limits — in a word , within philosophy . More specifically , I seek to elucidate ...
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... called " the poet of poetry " ; and for Nietzsche who — writing , celebrating and condemning in turn both philosophy and poetry — ultimately used the ham- mer of his thinking to shatter the foundations of a rationalist culture in which ...
... called " the poet of poetry " ; and for Nietzsche who — writing , celebrating and condemning in turn both philosophy and poetry — ultimately used the ham- mer of his thinking to shatter the foundations of a rationalist culture in which ...
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... called ' the opposite to reason and good sense , as light is to darkness , straight to crooked.'12 Sass and Derrida are certainly right to point out that the term madness , for all the historically and ideologically determined variance ...
... called ' the opposite to reason and good sense , as light is to darkness , straight to crooked.'12 Sass and Derrida are certainly right to point out that the term madness , for all the historically and ideologically determined variance ...
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... called to the service of Aufhebung , as an instance of work . And work , to close the circle again , would be the absence of madness . But just as a negativity so negative could not be called negativity any longer , a madness so mad ...
... called to the service of Aufhebung , as an instance of work . And work , to close the circle again , would be the absence of madness . But just as a negativity so negative could not be called negativity any longer , a madness so mad ...
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... called ( defiantly perhaps ? ) a science , and gay . EPILOGUE 136 This study is not a history , for , as Peter Szondi has said , " the only approach that does full justice to the work of art is the one that allows us to see history in ...
... called ( defiantly perhaps ? ) a science , and gay . EPILOGUE 136 This study is not a history , for , as Peter Szondi has said , " the only approach that does full justice to the work of art is the one that allows us to see history in ...
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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...