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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... writing in an attempt to negotiate the respective epistemological claims of philosophy and art . As antithetical as their positions often are , they are linked by a unifying theme : the idea of madness holds a central place FUTURE ...
... writing in an attempt to negotiate the respective epistemological claims of philosophy and art . As antithetical as their positions often are , they are linked by a unifying theme : the idea of madness holds a central place FUTURE ...
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... writing , celebrating and condemning in turn both philosophy and poetry — ultimately used the ham- mer of his thinking to shatter the foundations of a rationalist culture in which philosophy and poetry excluded each other . All of them ...
... writing , celebrating and condemning in turn both philosophy and poetry — ultimately used the ham- mer of his thinking to shatter the foundations of a rationalist culture in which philosophy and poetry excluded each other . All of them ...
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... writing ? Was Nerval's writing not a non - mad recollection of madness rather than the language of madness itself ? More importantly , perhaps , does Foucault himself not speak from the position of a cultural- historical psychologist ...
... writing ? Was Nerval's writing not a non - mad recollection of madness rather than the language of madness itself ? More importantly , perhaps , does Foucault himself not speak from the position of a cultural- historical psychologist ...
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... writers on reason , philosophy , and poetry . To be sure , madness means something different in each case , and so does the reason it competes with . In each case , however , reason emerges as an incomplete form of being , perhaps a ...
... writers on reason , philosophy , and poetry . To be sure , madness means something different in each case , and so does the reason it competes with . In each case , however , reason emerges as an incomplete form of being , perhaps a ...
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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...