Lunar Voices Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought

Name: Lunar Voices Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought
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ISBN: 9780226452753

ISBN-10: 0226452751

ISBN-13: 9780226452753

Edition: 1995

Authors: David Farrell Krell

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David Farrell Krell reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot, and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy, and death. The moon provides a unifying image that guides Krell's development of a new poetics in which literature and philosophy become one. Krell pursues important philosophical motifs such as time, rhythm, and desire, through texts by Nietzsche, Trakl, Empedocles, Kafka, and Garcia Marquez. He surveys instances in which poets or novelists explicitly address philosophical questions, and philosophers confront literary texts--Heidegger's and Derrida's appropriations of Georg Trakl's poetry,…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/5/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 204
Size: 5.71" wide x 9.06" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

David Farrell Krell, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, is author of several books, including Postponements (IUP, 1986), Of Memory, Reminiscence, Writing (IUP, 1990), Daimon Life (IUP, 1992), Infectious Nietzsche (IUP, 1996), and Contagion (IUP, 1998).



Preface



The Sensuality of Tragedy, the Tragedy of Sensuality Antiquity and Modernity: The Epochal Suspension of Empedocles Time, Tragic Downgoing, Affirmation Sensual Tragedy, Tragic Sensuality



Stuff. Thread. Point. Fire: Holderlin's Dissolution The Reproductive Act The Bypassed Terminus At the Burning Point Digression on Heidegger and Innigkeit Hyperbollipsis



The Source of the Wave: Rhythm in the Languages of Poetry and Thinking Antiphon The Animating Wave Fetters Saxifrage Rhythms of Presencing and Absencing



The Lunar Voice of the Sister The Selenic Situation of the Sister Upon the Being and Breast of a Girl The Generation of the Unborn Evil Most Furious. Dissension between Brother and Sister How to Gain a Sister? In (the) Place of God One Geschlecht: (S)he-lovers, Sea-lovers



"I, an Animal of the Forest...": Blanchot's Kafka The Feminine World and Literary Ambiguity The Animal Kingdom of the Writer Solitude, Silence, and the Sister The Narrative Voice An Incarnation Openly Bearing Its Emptiness The Burrow The Moss



Lunar Solitudes: The Eternal Return of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eternal Recurrence? of the Same? Solitudes of Love and Rancor The Solitude of Parchment


Index