Words in blood, like flowers : philosophy and poetry, music and eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger / Babette E. Babich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Babich, Babette E., 1956- author.

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.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 394 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2006]

Summary:

A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us.

Contents:

Philosophy and the poetic Eros of thought

Philology and aphoristic style : rhetoric, sources, and writing in blood

The birth of tragedy : lyric poetry and the music of words

Nietzsche's "Gay science" : poetry and love, science and music

Pindar's becoming : translating the imperatives of praise

Philosophy as music

Songs of the sun : Hölderlin in Venice

On pain and tragic joy : Nietzsche and Hölderlin

Nietzsche's erotic artist as actor, Jew, woman

Chaos and culture

The ethos of nature and art : Hölderlin's ecological politics

The work of art and the museum : Heidegger, Schapiro, Gadamer

The ethical alpha and Heidegger's linguistic omega : on the inner affinity between Germany and Greece

Heidegger's Beiträge as will to power.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780791481332

0791481336

9781429413596

142941359X

OCLC:

77078867

Publisher Number:

9780791468357