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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... Truth of Madness Total and Restricted Madness The Limits of Madness and the Limits of ix xi 1 1 4 Philosophy 9 From Divine Reason to Madness under the Death of God 11 Epilogue 17 CHAPTER ONE : TALKING ABOUT HOMER : POETIC MADNESS ...
... Truth of Madness Total and Restricted Madness The Limits of Madness and the Limits of ix xi 1 1 4 Philosophy 9 From Divine Reason to Madness under the Death of God 11 Epilogue 17 CHAPTER ONE : TALKING ABOUT HOMER : POETIC MADNESS ...
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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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... TRUTH OF MADNESS Apollo desired the Trojan princess Cassandra enough to offer her anything she might wish for . After choosing knowledge of the future , she refused to honor her side of the bargain . Since Greek gods cannot take back ...
... TRUTH OF MADNESS Apollo desired the Trojan princess Cassandra enough to offer her anything she might wish for . After choosing knowledge of the future , she refused to honor her side of the bargain . Since Greek gods cannot take back ...
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... truth has become manifest . And since by virtue of its very logic it must be obscure or ambiguous in order not to be ... truth , but it is a truth only about the mad themselves , their minds or their bodies . This conception of the ...
... truth has become manifest . And since by virtue of its very logic it must be obscure or ambiguous in order not to be ... truth , but it is a truth only about the mad themselves , their minds or their bodies . This conception of the ...
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... truth itself , at least as it looks to me . ( 533a ) 21 Unless Socrates wants to slight Glaucon individually , he appears to sug- gest that philosophy cannot abandon the image and remain teachable ; if it were unteachable , it would ...
... truth itself , at least as it looks to me . ( 533a ) 21 Unless Socrates wants to slight Glaucon individually , he appears to sug- gest that philosophy cannot abandon the image and remain teachable ; if it were unteachable , it would ...
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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...