Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought
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David Farrell Krell reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot, and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy, and death. The moon provides a unifying image that guides Krell's development of a new poetics in which literature and philosophy become one. Krell pursues important philosophical motifs such as time, rhythm, and desire, through texts by Nietzsche, Trakl, Empedocles, Kafka, and Garcia Marquez. He surveys instances in which poets or novelists explicitly address philosophical questions, and philosophers confront literary texts--Heidegger's and Derrida's appropriations of Georg Trakl's poetry, Blanchot's obsession with Kafka's tortuous love affairs, and Garcia Marquez's use of Nietzsche's idea of the Eternal Return--all linked by the tragic hero Empedocles. In his search to understand the insatiable desire for completeness that patterns so much art and philosophy, Krell investigates the identification of the lunar voice with woman in various roles--lover, friend, sister, shadow, and narrative voice.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226452778
ISBN13:9780226452777
Release Date:July 1995
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"
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How does one negotiate the complicated folding of philosophy, and literature? For David Farrell Krell, the answer lies in uncovering the poetic rhythm of thought itself. This is an extraordinary little work of continental scholarship with cutting-edge essays on Holderlin-Nietztsche- Empedocles, on Heidegger-Derrida-Trakl, on Kafka-Blanchot-Garcia Marquez, and of course the 'lunar voice of the sister.' Krell examines a variety of philosophical themes that emerge in literature, such as Nietzsche's 'eternal return' in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' There is some truly acute research on Holderlin going on here, and Krell has clearly marked his mastery of the late poetic Heidegger. An important text for any traditional Anglo-American who would rather see philosophy consigned to the sterility of the "bare bones" of the argument. Rich and creatively written.
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