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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... original German text and my own translations . WBD Friedrich Hölderlin . Werke , Briefe , Dokumente . Nach der Kleinen Stuttgarter Hölderlin - Ausgabe , hg . von Friedrich Beißner . Aus- gewählt und mit Nachwort von Pierre Bertaux ...
... original German text and my own translations . WBD Friedrich Hölderlin . Werke , Briefe , Dokumente . Nach der Kleinen Stuttgarter Hölderlin - Ausgabe , hg . von Friedrich Beißner . Aus- gewählt und mit Nachwort von Pierre Bertaux ...
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... - speaking readers , all quotations from German scholarly works have been translated into English ; I have retained the original passages in the endnotes . INTRODUCTION FUTURE PERFECT CASSANDRA , OR THE BELATED TRUTH OF xii ABBREVIATIONS.
... - speaking readers , all quotations from German scholarly works have been translated into English ; I have retained the original passages in the endnotes . INTRODUCTION FUTURE PERFECT CASSANDRA , OR THE BELATED TRUTH OF xii ABBREVIATIONS.
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... original moment as a moment of erotic madness . Thus , Socrates saves for philosophy the unmedi- ated nature of mad knowledge ; erotic madness , however , in contrast to poetic , Dionysian , and prophetic madness , is both interactive ...
... original moment as a moment of erotic madness . Thus , Socrates saves for philosophy the unmedi- ated nature of mad knowledge ; erotic madness , however , in contrast to poetic , Dionysian , and prophetic madness , is both interactive ...
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... original moment , but would mean the end of poetry altogether . Nietzsche's writings on madness further heighten the sense of the danger that threatens those who use madness in pursuit of truth . Plato's and Holderlin's spiritual ...
... original moment , but would mean the end of poetry altogether . Nietzsche's writings on madness further heighten the sense of the danger that threatens those who use madness in pursuit of truth . Plato's and Holderlin's spiritual ...
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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...