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Abyss above

Name: Abyss above
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04701583
Price: 101.87 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Silke-Maria Weineck
ISBN: 9780791454275

Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Holderlin, and Nietzsche

Silke-Maria Weineck

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04701583

Publishers State University of New York Press, July 2002

In The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship be... Full description

Libristo code: 04701583

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In 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.