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This book is a philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us.

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Author:   Babette Babich
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780791468364

ISBN 10:   0791468364
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   01 June 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Illustrations PHILOSOPHY, PHILOLOGY, POETRY 1. Philosophy and the Poetic Eros of Thought 2. Philology and Aphoristic Style: Rhetoric, Sources, and Writing in Blood 3. The Birth of Tragedy: Lyric Poetry and the Music of Words 4. Nietzsche's ""Gay Science"": Poetry and Love, Science and Music 5. Pindar's Becoming: Translating the Imperatives of Praise MUSIC, PAIN, EROS 6. Philosophy as Music 7. Songs of the Sun: Holderlin in Venice 8. On Pain and Tragic Joy: Nietzsche and Holderlin 9. Nietzsche's Erotic Artist as Actor/Jew/Woman ART, NATURE, CALCULATION 10. Chaos and Culture 11. The Ethos of Nature and Art: Holderlin's Ecological Politics 12. The Work of Art and the Museum: Heidegger, Schapiro, Gadamer 13. The Ethical Alpha and Heidegger's Linguistic Omega: On the Inner Affinity Between Germany and Greece 14. Heidegger's Beitrage as Will to Power Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index"

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This is a work of great scholarship and philosophical sensitivity that draws impressively on German literature and thought. This is by no means an antiquarian book, but one that is fully engaged with contemporary issues in which these figures are important, issues ranging from philosophical complicity in tyranny to the hermeneutics of architecture to the notion of the real in Nietzsche and Lacan. Babich's scholarship is exceptionally wide-ranging; she is among the foremost Nietzsche scholars; her arguments are provocative; and her style is fluent and elegant. -- VC)ronique M. FC3ti, author of Epochal Discordance: HC6lderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy

Babich's scholarship is exceptionally wide-ranging; she is among the foremost Nietzsche scholars; her arguments are provocative; and her style is fluent and elegant. -- VC)ronique M. FC3ti, author of Epochal Discordance: HC6lderlin's Philosophy of Tragedy This is a work of great scholarship and philosophical sensitivity that draws impressively on German literature and thought. This is by no means an antiquarian book, but one that is fully engaged with contemporary issues in which these figures are important, issues ranging from philosophical complicity in tyranny to the hermeneutics of architecture to the notion of the real in Nietzsche and Lacan.

This is a work of great scholarship and philosophical sensitivity that draws impressively on German literature and thought. This is by no means an antiquarian book, but one that is fully engaged with contemporary issues in which these figures are important, issues ranging from philosophical complicity in tyranny to the hermeneutics of architecture to the notion of the real in Nietzsche and Lacan.

Author Information

Babette E. Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and is the editor of Habermas, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory and the author of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life, also published by SUNY Press.

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