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1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : illustrations |
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes -- Chapter 2: The Dionysiac Chronotope -- Chapter 3: The Visualised Chronotope -- Chapter 4: Dionysiac Language -- PART II: The Time After -- Chapter 5: Visual and Linguistic Nihilism -- Chapter 6: "Wakers-of-the-Dead" -- Part III: Hölderlin's Retrieval of Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes -- Chapter 7: The Dionysiac Chronotope (Pre-1799-1799) -- Chapter 8: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1799-1802) -- Chapter 9: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1802-1804 and after) -- Chapter 10: Dionysiac Language (Pre-1799-1802) -- Chapter 11: Dionysiac Language (1802-1804 and after) -- PART IV: Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Nationalism -- Chapter 13: Christianity -- Chapter 14: Hölderlinian Hyperabstractions -- CODA: "Holy Madness"? -- Index -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich H©œlderlin (1770 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows H©œlderlins poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and language to challenge the estrangement of humans from nature and one other. In this book, author Lucas Murrey presents a new picture of ancient Greece, noting that money emerged and rapidly developed there in the sixth century B.C. This act of monetization brought with it a concept of tragedy: money-tyrants struggling against the forces of earth and community who succumb to individual isolation, blindness and death. As Murrey points out, H©œlderlin (unconsciously) retrieves the battle between money, nature and community and creatively applies its lessons to our time. But H©œlderlins poetry not only adapts tragedy to question the unlimited machine process of a clever race of money-tyrants. It also draws attention to Greeces warnings about the mortal danger of the eyes in myth, cult and theatre. This monograph thus introduces an urgently needed vision not only of H©œlderlin hymns, but also the relevance of disciplines as diverse as Literary Studies, Philosophy, Psychology (Psychoanalysis) as well as Religious and Visual (Media) Studies to our present predicament, where a dangerous visual culture, through its support of the unlimitedness of money, is harming our relation to nature and one another. Here triumphs a temperament guided by ancient religion and that excavates, in H©œlderlins translations, the central god Dionysus of Greek tragedy. Bernhard B©œschenstein, author of Frucht des Gewitters. Zu H©œlderlins Dionysos als Gott der Revolution and Paul Celan: Der Meridian. EndfassungEntw©ơrfeMaterialien. Lucas Murrey shares with his subject, H©œlderlin, a vision of the Greeks as bringing something vitally important into our poor world, a vision of which few classical scholars are now capable. Richard Seaford, author of Money and the Early Greek Mind. Homer, Tragedy, Philosophy and Dionysus. H©œlderlin deserved such a book. Jean-Fran©ʹois Kerv©♭gan, author of Que faire de Carl Schmitt? fascinating material Noam Chomsky, author of Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda and Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe |
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filosofie |
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philosophy |
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geschiedenis |
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history |
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Grieks |
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Greek (language) |
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interdisciplinair onderzoek |
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interdisciplinary research |
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literatuur |
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literature |
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talen |
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languages |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Filosofie (algemeen) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 23, 2014) |
| Subject |
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.
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| SUBJECT |
Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843 fast |
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German poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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German poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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German poetry
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319102054 |
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3319102052 |
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3319102044 |
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9783319102047 |
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