The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger's important 1920-21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lecture course Introduction to the Phenomenology of ...Religion, a course on Augustine and Neoplatonism, and notes for a course on The Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism that was never delivered. Heidegger's engagements with Aristotle, St. Paul, Augustine, and Luther give readers a sense of what phenomenology would come to mean in the mature expression of his thought. Heidegger reveals an impressive display of theological knowledge, protecting Christian life experience from Greek philosophy and defending Paul against Nietzsche.
While with this special issue we celebrate the anniversary of the birth of these poets, we note that this year also marks half a century since Celan’s death by his own hand. In critical contest with ...Heideggerian poetics, Liska explores the potential of poetic language to capture both the attraction and the precariousness of substituting territorial rootedness with a Jewish attachment to the word. Achim Geisenhanslüke argues that translations by both authors are not only an integral part of their poetic work, but also the point of departure for a common poetics. Addressing the concepts of Lebensgefühl, Gemüt, and genius in light of their post-Kantian appropriations, Law suggests that Hölderlin’s poetry and Benjamin’s commentary tacitly undermine dominant philosophical understandings of the relation between life and death.
Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways ...in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasis—the stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian. Through the works of artists and writers such as Benjamin, Cézanne, Frost, Klee, Newman, Pollock, Ponge, Proust, Rilke, Robbe-Grillet, Rothko, Sartre, and Twombly, the world of quotidian life can be seen to harbor a latent ecstasis. The breakdown of the quotidian through and after modernism then becomes an urgent question for understanding art and literature in its capacity to further human experience, and it points to the limits of phenomenological explications of the everyday.
En este ensayo se considera la relación entre muerte y autenticidad, una preocupación presente en la filosofía desde el discurso de Sócrates sobre su propia sentencia de muerte. La muerte no es ...competencia de la ontología ni de la fenomenología, pero sí del pensamiento existencialista, en el que ha sido central. En la filosofía de Heidegger, la noción de ser-para-la-muerte define la singularidad de la existencia, y la muerte informa dramáticamente tanto la poética de Rilke como la teoría literaria de Blanchot. Este ensayo muestra cómo la relación entre muerte y autenticidad en dichas obras constituye el horizonte entre lo imaginable y lo inimaginable, y representa también un modo de pensar los límites del pensamiento y el lenguaje.
In her article "Radnóti, Blanchot, and the (Un)writing of Disaster" Jennifer Anna Gosetti- Ferencei applies Maurice Blanchot's notion of disaster to the Holocaust poetry of Miklós Radnóti ...(1909-1944). Radnóti's work contemplates a catastrophic present and brings authorial experience and the writing self to the fore. Blanchot's thought may help us to understand Radnóti's poetry, yet paradoxically so, since the poems repel Blanchot's central formulations about the passivity and sacrifice of the author and, in his reflections on Kafka, about the uncertainty of death. Gosetti-Ferencei's study shows that despite divergences Blanchot's treatment of writing and authorship illuminates these themes in Radnóti's poems and that the latter also sheds new critical light on Blanchot's elusive understanding of disaster.
Radnoti, Blanchot, and the Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna
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Rilke and Stevens evoke the question of transcendence, understanding the task of poetry within the post-Romantic context of the eclipse of the divine. This study shows that rather than simply give up ...on transcendence, Rilke and Stevens both innovate on and transform its momentum, and that this transformation constitutes a central achievement of their respective poetics and a core of their configurations of modernism. It argues that in the context of modern poetry transcendence, or "crossing beyond," must be understood in two distinct senses, as vertical and horizontal projections, and it is the usurpation of one by the other or the transfer between them that distinguishes the poetry of Rilke and Stevens and makes a comparative reading particularly illuminating. Establishing their relation to the phenomenological tradition helps to bring out a sense of transcendence distinct from a traditional or Romantic longing for a realm above and beyond earthly existence. This would be an "immanent" transcendence, a crossing of horizons between perception and imagination or imagination and reality.
When we are most immersed in literary reading, and when that immersion is most significant, we may experience a literary work as constitutive of a 'world'. With reference to the phenomenological ...tradition, it can be shown how this world is both a novel creation and serves to disclose, not least by shifting our perspective from, the world of ordinary experience. In this light, it will be shown how the problem of mimesis poses a challenge for recent neuroscientific approaches to literature. At the same time, neuroscientific findings show the insufficiency of phenomenological accounts which fail to acknowledge the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie literary imagining. I introduce the notion of the 'mimetic dimension' in order to clarify what accounts based on phenomenology and neuroscience can and cannot explain about literary mimesis and the experience of a literary world.
Rilke's insufficiently examined short prose works form the basis for a reexamination of Rilke's poetics of space. While spatiality in Rilke has been almost exclusively characterized in the reception ...as a lyrical "Weltinnenraum," this notion can be understood as one highpoint within the development of a more encompassing and differentiated structure of the spatial imagination, the "Zwischenraum," or interstitial space. Exceeding the limits of empirical perception, Rilke develops in prose various innovations in spatial presentation, including transposition of background and foreground; communication between metaphorical interior and empirically exterior spaces; empathetic study of objects as opening a lived space between self and world; and the evocation of inter-phenomenal regions between the different senses. Taking interstitial space into account thus demands a reconception of Weltinnenraum, which conforms neither to the reigning phenomenological interpretation nor to a transcendental account. As a form of interstitial space, Weltinnenraum is not a wholly symbolic space, but a poetical renegotiation of the limits of human experience.
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