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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: The Mark of a Poem
1. Repeat: The Experience of Poetic Language
The Turning of Logos
Saying the Same
The Limit of Writing
Again, Anew
Earth and Phusis
Draw-ing and Polemos
Poetry and Logos
Thesis: Stellen: Peras
The Reading of the Word
The Writing of the Word
The Position of the Word
Part Two: The Repetition of Language
4. 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
Bearing Out
The Pain of Language
Into the Space of Renunciation
In Palimpsest
“Without return”
. . .
“Never repeat”
(Refrain)
Index
Circa l’autore
William S. Allen is an independent scholar who received his Ph D from the University of Warwick, England.
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