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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... never be guaranteed in advance by the methods devised to legitimate the operations of rational thought . Not all madness hides a truth , after all , and since the verification of mad truth cannot itself be mad , any philosophy of ...
... never be guaranteed in advance by the methods devised to legitimate the operations of rational thought . Not all madness hides a truth , after all , and since the verification of mad truth cannot itself be mad , any philosophy of ...
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... never master madness : psy- chology has only become possible in our world after madness already was mastered , after it had already been excluded from the drama . And if mad- ness , a lightning , a scream , reappears in Nerval or Artaud ...
... never master madness : psy- chology has only become possible in our world after madness already was mastered , after it had already been excluded from the drama . And if mad- ness , a lightning , a scream , reappears in Nerval or Artaud ...
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... never mad enough " ( CHM , 51 ) to en- gage philosophy . Certainly , this statement is meant to elucidate Descartes ' quest for a perfect doubt , but Derrida , at times , also appears to be speaking for philosophy per se . A madness mad ...
... never mad enough " ( CHM , 51 ) to en- gage philosophy . Certainly , this statement is meant to elucidate Descartes ' quest for a perfect doubt , but Derrida , at times , also appears to be speaking for philosophy per se . A madness mad ...
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... never be . Thus , poetic text and philosophical text are not primarily distinguished by formal or stylistic criteria ; neither do they relate to each other like madness and reason or lie and truth . Both poetry and philosophy must ...
... never be . Thus , poetic text and philosophical text are not primarily distinguished by formal or stylistic criteria ; neither do they relate to each other like madness and reason or lie and truth . Both poetry and philosophy must ...
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... never be then the mournful monologue of the maniac on the marketplace would be the last possible act of true madness within the history of reason . The knowledge of his death would be the last message 16 │THE ABYSS ABOVE.
... never be then the mournful monologue of the maniac on the marketplace would be the last possible act of true madness within the history of reason . The knowledge of his death would be the last message 16 │THE ABYSS ABOVE.
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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...