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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... 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 the ix I.
... 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 the ix I.
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... Theory , trans , and ed . Thomas Pfau , with the kind permission of the State University of New York Press . Paul Celan , " Tubingen , Janner , " with the kind permission of the Fischer Verlag . Philippe Lacoue - Labarthe , " The ...
... Theory , trans , and ed . Thomas Pfau , with the kind permission of the State University of New York Press . Paul Celan , " Tubingen , Janner , " with the kind permission of the Fischer Verlag . Philippe Lacoue - Labarthe , " The ...
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... theory of poetic madness is central to the birth of Platonic philosophy itself , and thus to that part of Western philosophy as a whole that starts with Plato . It seems necessary to clarify the notion of madness that is at stake here ...
... theory of poetic madness is central to the birth of Platonic philosophy itself , and thus to that part of Western philosophy as a whole that starts with Plato . It seems necessary to clarify the notion of madness that is at stake here ...
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... theory with any predictive or explanatory force , and while the phenomenon of the mad creator remains to intrigue scientists and humanists alike , we are still looking at a sporadic correlation for which no causal model has proven ...
... theory with any predictive or explanatory force , and while the phenomenon of the mad creator remains to intrigue scientists and humanists alike , we are still looking at a sporadic correlation for which no causal model has proven ...
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... theory has investigated these in some detail.23 Under rigorous investigation , the lines that would separate the poetic and the philosophical use of fiction appear to blur as well , leading poststructuralist theory under the influence ...
... theory has investigated these in some detail.23 Under rigorous investigation , the lines that would separate the poetic and the philosophical use of fiction appear to blur as well , leading poststructuralist theory under the influence ...
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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...