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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... Meaning Philosophy's Mad Demon 19 19 32 45 +255 CHAPTER TWO : THE ABYSS ABOVE : HÖLDERLIN : MADNESS , PHILOSOPHY , AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry Translating Greece 58 +90 49 49 ...
... Meaning Philosophy's Mad Demon 19 19 32 45 +255 CHAPTER TWO : THE ABYSS ABOVE : HÖLDERLIN : MADNESS , PHILOSOPHY , AND TRAGEDY IN THE ABSENCE OF THE GODS Introduction : Madness and the Labor of Poetry Translating Greece 58 +90 49 49 ...
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... a hermeneutic of mad utterance . This structure presents itself most hauntingly in Greek mythology and Attic tragedy . The meaning of prophecy , as Tiresias and the mad Sybil of 1 Delphi speak it , is dark until its truth has III.
... a hermeneutic of mad utterance . This structure presents itself most hauntingly in Greek mythology and Attic tragedy . The meaning of prophecy , as Tiresias and the mad Sybil of 1 Delphi speak it , is dark until its truth has III.
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... meaning of its words from that tragic tear and from that freedom in the face of which the mere existence of ' psychologists ' guarantees contemporary man a depressing forgetfulness.11 It is by no means obvious , however , why Foucault ...
... meaning of its words from that tragic tear and from that freedom in the face of which the mere existence of ' psychologists ' guarantees contemporary man a depressing forgetfulness.11 It is by no means obvious , however , why Foucault ...
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... meaning . " 27 It is hardly a coincidence that economic disappropriation is one of the historically most stable elements in the treatment of the mad . One of Solon's laws stated already that the mad could hold no property 10 | THE ABYSS ...
... meaning . " 27 It is hardly a coincidence that economic disappropriation is one of the historically most stable elements in the treatment of the mad . One of Solon's laws stated already that the mad could hold no property 10 | THE ABYSS ...
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... meaning and the exchange of goods go together , and the mad can be ex- cluded from this marketplace because they do not play by the rules . In stretching Kant's analogy , we might say that the poet , and especially the inspired or mad ...
... meaning and the exchange of goods go together , and the mad can be ex- cluded from this marketplace because they do not play by the rules . In stretching Kant's analogy , we might say that the poet , and especially the inspired or mad ...
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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...