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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... Divine Reason to Madness under the Death of God 11 Epilogue 17 CHAPTER ONE : TALKING ABOUT HOMER : POETIC MADNESS , PHILOSOPHY , AND THE BIRTH OF CRITICISM Talking about Homer Phaedrus : Madly Made Meaning Philosophy's Mad Demon 19 19 ...
... Divine Reason to Madness under the Death of God 11 Epilogue 17 CHAPTER ONE : TALKING ABOUT HOMER : POETIC MADNESS , PHILOSOPHY , AND THE BIRTH OF CRITICISM Talking about Homer Phaedrus : Madly Made Meaning Philosophy's Mad Demon 19 19 ...
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... DIVINE REASON TO MADNESS UNDER THE DEATH OF GOD In the history of poetics , it was rather late that the mad poet was meant to provide an insight into his madness — if the poetry of the mad mattered at all , then precisely to the extent ...
... DIVINE REASON TO MADNESS UNDER THE DEATH OF GOD In the history of poetics , it was rather late that the mad poet was meant to provide an insight into his madness — if the poetry of the mad mattered at all , then precisely to the extent ...
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... divine inspiration to poetic madness as an individual pathology mirrors that shift . As Nagele points out , psychoanalytic theories have reinvested the creative process with a quasi - demonic element : That which emerges as the ...
... divine inspiration to poetic madness as an individual pathology mirrors that shift . As Nagele points out , psychoanalytic theories have reinvested the creative process with a quasi - demonic element : That which emerges as the ...
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... divine madness . Holderlin , too , links the related projects of self - knowledge and meta- physics to madness — whether he was influenced in this by the Phaedrus is difficult to decide . In his translations of and his complex ...
... divine madness . Holderlin , too , links the related projects of self - knowledge and meta- physics to madness — whether he was influenced in this by the Phaedrus is difficult to decide . In his translations of and his complex ...
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... divine experi- ence now reserved to " the stronger ones , " the tragic heroes . For Holderlin , the only madness that counts is still divine madness , and where the poets have to bear the absence of the gods , they have to bear the ...
... divine experi- ence now reserved to " the stronger ones , " the tragic heroes . For Holderlin , the only madness that counts is still divine madness , and where the poets have to bear the absence of the gods , they have to bear the ...
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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...