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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... claiming once to know only that he knew noth- ing . From the Symposium's Alcibiades , we know much about his resistance against the flesh , but not so much about the attraction that the mad rituals of prophets and bacchantic dance ...
... claiming once to know only that he knew noth- ing . From the Symposium's Alcibiades , we know much about his resistance against the flesh , but not so much about the attraction that the mad rituals of prophets and bacchantic dance ...
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... to negotiate the respective epistemological claims of philosophy and art . As antithetical as their positions often are , they are linked by a unifying theme : the idea of madness holds a central place FUTURE PERFECT | 3.
... to negotiate the respective epistemological claims of philosophy and art . As antithetical as their positions often are , they are linked by a unifying theme : the idea of madness holds a central place FUTURE PERFECT | 3.
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... claims that " [ madness ] simply says the other of each determined form of the logos " ( CHM , 42 ) . And in Madness and Modernism , Louis A. Sass remarks that [ t ] he madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination , yet there ...
... claims that " [ madness ] simply says the other of each determined form of the logos " ( CHM , 42 ) . And in Madness and Modernism , Louis A. Sass remarks that [ t ] he madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination , yet there ...
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... claim to any rigor whatsoever implies the alternative of ' all or nothing ' , " if it " is impossible or illegitimate to form a philosophical concept outside the logic of all or nothing , " 17 then nothing may too often be all that is ...
... claim to any rigor whatsoever implies the alternative of ' all or nothing ' , " if it " is impossible or illegitimate to form a philosophical concept outside the logic of all or nothing , " 17 then nothing may too often be all that is ...
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... claims the inheritance of Plato against the neo - Platonist enthusiasts , and , by extension , against the poets who read Plato as one of them . He writes : At bottom all philosophy is probably prosaic ; and the proposition to once ...
... claims the inheritance of Plato against the neo - Platonist enthusiasts , and , by extension , against the poets who read Plato as one of them . He writes : At bottom all philosophy is probably prosaic ; and the proposition to once ...
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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...