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 itself : " To say mad- ness without expelling it into objectivity is to let it say itself . But madness is what by essence cannot be said " ( CHM , 43 ) . The madman is locked into an interminable solitude where he cannot speak ...
... speak itself : " To say mad- ness without expelling it into objectivity is to let it say itself . But madness is what by essence cannot be said " ( CHM , 43 ) . The madman is locked into an interminable solitude where he cannot speak ...
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... speak about themselves as mad without entering the discourse of sanity , " expelling their madness into objectivity ... speaking for philosophy per se . A madness mad enough would amount to " a negativity so negative that it could not ...
... speak about themselves as mad without entering the discourse of sanity , " expelling their madness into objectivity ... speaking for philosophy per se . A madness mad enough would amount to " a negativity so negative that it could not ...
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... speaking in the name of " true " philosophy , claims the inheritance of Plato against the neo - Platonist enthusiasts , and , by extension , against the poets who read Plato as one of them . He writes : At bottom all philosophy is ...
... speaking in the name of " true " philosophy , claims the inheritance of Plato against the neo - Platonist enthusiasts , and , by extension , against the poets who read Plato as one of them . He writes : At bottom all philosophy is ...
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... speaking priestly , " as Oedipus did , and of getting sucked into the abyss above . This fall , however , would then no longer constitute poetry's original moment , but would mean the end of poetry altogether . Nietzsche's writings on ...
... speaking priestly , " as Oedipus did , and of getting sucked into the abyss above . This fall , however , would then no longer constitute poetry's original moment , but would mean the end of poetry altogether . Nietzsche's writings on ...
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... authenticity . Madness finally meets with silence as absolute negativity , a silence poetry must overcome in order to continue speaking . CHAPTER ONE TALKING ABOUT HOMER Poetic Madness , Philosophy , FUTURE PERFECT | 17 V.
... authenticity . Madness finally meets with silence as absolute negativity , a silence poetry must overcome in order to continue speaking . CHAPTER ONE TALKING ABOUT HOMER Poetic Madness , Philosophy , FUTURE PERFECT | 17 V.
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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...