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OverviewWinner of the 2023 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy In the early 1950s, German philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl to be the poet of his generation and of the hidden Occident. Trakl, a guilt-ridden lyricist who died of a cocaine overdose in the early days of World War I, thus became for Heidegger a redemptive successor to Hölderlin. Drawing on Derrida's Geschlecht series and substantial archival research, Dialogue on the Threshold explores the productive and problematic tensions that pervade Heidegger's reading of Trakl and reflects more broadly on the thresholds that separate philosophy from poetry, gathering from dispersion, the same from the other, and the native from the foreigner. Ian Alexander Moore examines why Heidegger was reluctant to follow Trakl's invitation to cross these thresholds, even though his encounter with the poet did compel him to take up, in astounding ways, many underrepresented topics in his philosophical corpus such as sexual difference, pain, animality, and Christianity. A contribution not just to Heidegger and Trakl studies but also, more modestly, to the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry, Dialogue on the Threshold concludes with new translations of eighteen poems by Trakl. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian Alexander MoorePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438490663ISBN 10: 1438490666 Pages: 420 Publication Date: 02 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Images Acknowledgments Abbreviations Note on Translations Introduction Chapter 1: “The Poet of Our Generation”: Heidegger Reads Trakl 1. Discovering the Poet (Thanks to a Journal for the Avant-Garde) 2. Lecturing at a Luxury Resort 3. Speaking of Language 4. Celebrating Trakl, Saving the West 5. Post eventum 6. Annotating the Trakl Bible Chapter 2: Language of Bread and Wine 1. Gesture, the Inexpressible, and the Speaking of the Unspoken 2. Language of Earth and Sky 3. Digression on Christianity 4. Language of Body and Blood Chapter 3: For the Love of Detachment 1. The Problem of Polysemy 2. Heidegger’s Placement of Detachment 3. Abgeschiedenheit in (Our?) Middle High German 4. Heidegger’s Early Acquaintance with Detachment 5. Deconstructing Detachment 6. Pour l’amour de l’Abgeschiedenheit Chapter 4: Pain Is Being Itself 1. Heidegger’s On Pain 2. Ernst Jünger: On or beyond Pain? 3. Via doloris heideggeriana 4. Zum Schmerz selbst! 5. The Gentle Gathering of Pain 6. Algos: An Etymological Excursus 7. In the Name of Schmerz 8. “ein gewaltiger Schmerz”: Trakl’s “Grodek” Chapter 5: Poetic Colors of the Holy: Trakl with Pindar 1. Chrusology, Ontology, Hierology 2. Sacré bleu 3. A Heideggerian Farbenlehre? 4. (Un)holy Madness: Trakl with Hölderlin and Celan Chapter 6: Geschlecht 1. “A Grand Discourse on Sexual Difference” 2. The Wild Blue Game 3. Humanimalit Chapter 7: Spirit in Tatters 1. The Promise 2. The Promise, Painfully Broken 3. “Grodek” Redux Postscript Appendix 1: Heidegger’s Trakl Marginalia 1. Background 2. Marginalia in the Zurich Edition 3. Marginalia to “Into an Old Family Album” Appendix 2: Heidegger’s Occasional References to Trakl Appendix 3: References to Trakl’s Works in “Language in the Poem” Appendix 4: Selected Poems by Trakl Abendländisches Lied / Song of the Occident An den Knaben Elis / To the Boy Elis An Novalis / To Novalis Das Herz / The Heart De profundis / Out of the Depths Der Tau des Frühlings / The Dew of Spring Frühling der Seele / Springtime of the Soul Geistliche Dämmerung / Spiritual Twilight Gesang des Abgeschiedenen / Song of the Departed One Grodek / Gródek Herbstseele / Autumn Soul Hölderlin / Hölderlin Im Winter (Ein Winterabend) / In Winter (A Winter Evening) In ein altes Stammbuch / Into an Old Family Album Karl Kraus / Karl Kraus Klage / Lamentation Passion / The Passion Nachtergebung / Surrender to the Night Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsThis is an extremely impressive book. Full of original insights and meticulous scholarship, as well as new primary source material that is not available elsewhere, Dialogue on the Threshold establishes Moore among the leading Heidegger scholars of his generation. - Robert Bernasconi, Pennsylvania State University Author InformationIan Alexander Moore is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a faculty member at St. John's College. He is the author of Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement, also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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