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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... speak here ; I wouldn't dare . 1 thank the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania for its generous support , and my superb new colleagues and friends at the German Studies Department and ...
... speak here ; I wouldn't dare . 1 thank the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania for its generous support , and my superb new colleagues and friends at the German Studies Department and ...
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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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... be 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.
... be 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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... speak it , is dark until its truth has become manifest . And since by virtue of its very logic it must be obscure or ambiguous in order not to be averted , the only accurate tense for the movement of revelation is future perfect : this ...
... speak it , is dark until its truth has become manifest . And since by virtue of its very logic it must be obscure or ambiguous in order not to be averted , the only accurate tense for the movement of revelation is future perfect : this ...
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... speak from the position of a cultural- historical psychologist , indebted more than he admits to Freud and to that Nietzsche who himself was a great psychologist ? But even if Nerval , Nietzsche , Holderlin , Artaud , or Roussel did ...
... speak from the position of a cultural- historical psychologist , indebted more than he admits to Freud and to that Nietzsche who himself was a great psychologist ? But even if Nerval , Nietzsche , Holderlin , Artaud , or Roussel did ...
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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...