Ellipsis : of poetry and the experience of language after Heidegger, Holderlin, and Blanchot / William S. Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, William S., 1971-

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843.

Hölderlin, Friedrich.

Blanchot, Maurice.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Poetry.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the nature of poetic language when its experience involves an encounter with finitude; with failure, loss, and absence? For Martin Heidegger this experience is central to any thinking that would seek to articulate the meaning of being, but for Friedrich Hölderlin and Maurice Blanchot it is a mark of the tragic and unanswerable demands of poetic language. In Ellipsis, a rigorous, original study on the language of poetry, the language of philosophy, and the limits of the word, William S. Allen offers the first in-depth examination of the development of Heidegger's thinking of poetic language—which remains his most radical and yet most misunderstood work—that carefully balances it with the impossible demands of this experience of finitude, an experience of which Hölderlin and Blanchot have provided the most searching examinations. In bringing language up against its limits, Allen shows that poetic language not only exposes thinking to its abyssal grounds, but also indicates how the limits of our existence come themselves, traumatically, impossibly, to speak.

Contents:

Introduction

The mark of a poem

Repeat: the experience of poetic language

The turning of logos

Saying the same

The limit of writing

Again, anew

Hiding: figures of Cryptophilia in the work of art

Earth and phusis

Draw-ing and polemos

Poetry and logos

Thesis : stellen: peras

Beyond: the limits of the word in Heidegger and Blanchot

The reading of the word

The writing of the word

The position of the word

The repetition of language

Suspending: the translation of tragedy in Hölderlin's essays

The chiasmic ground of Empedocles

The Caesura of Oedipus

The eccentricity of Antigone

The rhythm of Dysmoron

A void: writing and the essence of language

Bearing out

The pain of language

Into the space of renunciation

In palimpsest

Fragmenting l'iter-rature of relation

Without return

...

Never repeat

(Refrain).

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.

ISBN:

9780791479704

0791479706

9781435600201

1435600207

OCLC:

173350730