Being here is glorious : on Rilke, poetry, and philosophy : with a new translation of the Duino Elegies / James D. Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, James D. (James David), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Duineser Elegien.

Rilke, Rainer Maria.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926--Criticism and interpretation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.

Philosophy in literature.

Duineser Elegien (Rilke, Rainer Maria).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 159 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' orders?" Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies opens with one of the most powerful poetic expressions of the search for meaning in the modern world. Published in 1923, the Elegies would influence important philosophers on the Continent, including Heidegger. But with a few exceptions, Rilke's poetry has not had an impact on philosophy in the Anglo-American world, hi Being Here Is Glorious, James D. Reid offers a fresh translation of the Elegies, which hews to the form of the original, and provides his own meditation on the place of poetry in philosophy. Reid makes a convincing case that poetry and philosophy can address the problem of finding things significant and worth affirming in light of various reasons to doubt the value of the world in which we find ourselves cast. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. Interpreting

Prelude

An ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry

Dichtung und Wahrheit

The philosophical world of the Duino Elegies

Part II.The Elegies

Duineser Elegien/Duino Elegies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-151) index.

Contains:

Container of: Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Duineser Elegien. English

ISBN:

9780810131347

081013134X

9780810131354

0810131358

OCLC:

908554320