Between philosophy and poetry : writing, rhythm, and history
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Between philosophy and poetry : writing, rhythm, and history
（Textures : philosophy, literature, culture series）
Continuum, 2002
- : hard
- : paper
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This text examines the complex and controversial relation that has informed literary theory since ancient times: the difference between philosophy and poetry. The book explores three specific areas: the practice of writing with respect to orality; the interpretive modes of poetic and philosophical discourse as self-narration and historical understanding; how rhythm marks the differential spaces in poetry and philosophy. The book brings together some of the most prominent international scholars in the fields of philosophy and literature to examine the differences between orality and writing, the signs and traces of gender in writing, the historical dimension of the tension between philosophical and poetic language, and the future possibility of a musical thinking that would go beyond the opposition between philosophy and poetry.In the final instance, rhythm is the force to be reckoned with and is the essential element in an understanding of philosophy and poetry. Rhythm in effect provides a musical ethics of philosophy, for musical thinking goes beyond the metaphysical opposition between philosophy and poetry and sets the frame for post-philosophical practice.
The contributors include: Amittari F. Aviram, Babette Babich , Eve Taylor Bannet, Stephen Barker, Alexandro Carrera, Richard Detsch, Karen Feldman, David Halliburton, Richard Kearney, Carlo Sini, P. Christopher Smith, and Forrest Williams.
Table of Contents
General Introduction: Thinking between Philosophy and Poetry, Robert Burch (University of Alberta) Part One: Ethics of Writing Introduction, Massimo Verdicchio (University of Alberta) 1. Gesture and Word: The Practice of Philosophy and the Practice of Poetry, Carlo Sini (University of Milan) 2. The Rise and Fall of Reality: Socrates, Virtual Reality and the Birth of Philosophy out of the "Spirit of Writing", Alessandro Carrera (New York University) 3. Analogical Thinking as the Friend of Interpretive Truth: Reflections Based on Carlo Sini's Images of Truth, Forrest Williams (University of Colorado, Boulder) Part Two: Truth, Texts and the Narrative Self Introduction (Robert Burch) 4. When Truth Becomes Woman: Male Traces and Female Signs, Eve Tavor Bannet (University of Oklahoma, Norman) 5. Orality and Writing: Plato's Phaedrus and the Pharmakon Revisited, P. Christopher Smith (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) 6. Ethics and the Narrative Self, Richard Kearney (University College, Dublin) Part Three: Poetry, Philosophy and the Spirit of History Introduction, Massimo Verdicchio 7. Woburn on My Mind and in My (Mind's) Eye: Beckett's Poiesis, Stephen Barker (University of California at Irvine) 8. The Naming of the Hymn: Heidegger and Holderlin, Karen Feldman (University of California at Berkeley) 9. On Transvaluing History: Rilke and Nietzsche, Richard Detsch (University of Nebraska at Kearny) Part Four: The "Force of Rhythm" in Life, Philosophy and Poetry Introduction, Robert Burch 10. Reflections on Speed, David Halliburton (Stanford University) 11. The Meaning of Rhythm, F. Amittai Aviram (University of South Carolina) 12. Mousike Techne: The Philosophical Practice of Music in Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger, Babette E. Babich (Fordham University and Georgetown University)
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