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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786427803321

Titolo

Between philosophy and poetry : writing, rhythm, history / / edited by Massimo Verdicchio and Robert Burch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Continuum, , 2002

ISBN

0-567-27157-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Textures

Disciplina

101

Soggetti

Philosophy

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; General Introduction: Thinking Between Philosophy and Poetry; Part One: Ethics of Writing; Introduction; 1 Gesture and Word: The Practice of Philosophy and the Practice of Poetry; 2 The Rise and Fall of Reality: Socrates, Virtual Reality, and the Birth of Philosophy from the "Spirit of Writing"; 3 Analogical Thinking as a Friend of Interpretive Truth: Reflctions Based on Carlo Sini's Images of Truth; Part Two: Truth, Texts, and the Narrative Self; Introduction; 4 When Truth Becomes Woman: Male Traces and Female Signs

5 Orality and Writing: Plato's Phaedrus and the Pharmakon Revisited6 Ethics of the Narrative Self; Part Three: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Spirit of History; Introduction; 7 Woburn on My Mind and in My (Mind's) Eye: Beckett's Poiēsis; 8 The Naming of the Hymn: Heidegger and Hölderlin; 9 On Transvaluing History: Rilke and Nietzsche; Part Four: The "Force of Rhythm" in Life, Philosophy, and Poetry; Introduction; 10 Reflections on Speed; 11 The Meaning of Rhythm; 12 MousikēTechnē: The Philosophical Practice of Music in Plato, Nietzsche, and Heidegger; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A

BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Editors

Sommario/riassunto

Between Philosophy and Poetry 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 o