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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... Madman on the Marketplace 108 The Hyperborean : La Vache Qui Danse 117 CONCLUSION : LOGOS AND PALLAKSCH : PAUL CELAN'S " TÜBINGEN , JÄNNER " Anachrony Appropriation Anamnesis NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 121 121 125 127 137 22225 167 175 ...
... Madman on the Marketplace 108 The Hyperborean : La Vache Qui Danse 117 CONCLUSION : LOGOS AND PALLAKSCH : PAUL CELAN'S " TÜBINGEN , JÄNNER " Anachrony Appropriation Anamnesis NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 121 121 125 127 137 22225 167 175 ...
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... madman . As truth or knowledge , the revelation granted by supreme madness can be confirmed only in retrospect , nachtraglich . The story of madness must be read in reverse , for the validity or invalidity of mad thought can never be ...
... madman . As truth or knowledge , the revelation granted by supreme madness can be confirmed only in retrospect , nachtraglich . The story of madness must be read in reverse , for the validity or invalidity of mad thought can never be ...
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... madman .... 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 ...
... madman .... 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 ...
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... madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination , yet there is a sameness to his many masks .... Nearly always insanity has been seen as what one early - nineteenth - century alienist called ' the opposite to reason and good sense ...
... madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination , yet there is a sameness to his many masks .... Nearly always insanity has been seen as what one early - nineteenth - century alienist called ' the opposite to reason and good sense ...
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... madman from engaging in philosophy . Freud , for instance , was at times rather exasperated by Schreber's metaphysical aspirations , even though or perhaps because they amounted to a quite consistent theology.16 In paralleling ' saying ...
... madman from engaging in philosophy . Freud , for instance , was at times rather exasperated by Schreber's metaphysical aspirations , even though or perhaps because they amounted to a quite consistent theology.16 In paralleling ' saying ...
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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...