- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agamben as a Reader
-
1 Aristotle -
2 Walter Benjamin -
3 Guy Debord -
4 Michel Foucault -
5 Martin Heidegger -
6 Paul the Apostle -
7 Carl Schmitt -
8 Hannah Arendt -
9 Georges Bataille -
10 Émile Benveniste -
11 Dante Alighieri -
12 Gilles Deleuze -
13 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
14 Friedrich Hölderlin -
15 Franz Kafka -
16 Immanuel Kant -
17 Friedrich Nietzsche -
18 Plato -
19 Plotinus -
20 Marquis de Sade -
21 Baruch Spinoza -
22 Aby Warburg -
23 Theodor W. Adorno -
24 Jacques Derrida -
25 Sigmund Freud -
26 Jacques Lacan -
27 Karl Marx -
28 Antonio Negri -
29 Gershom Scholem -
30 Simone Weil - Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
- Contributors
- Index
Friedrich Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
- Chapter:
- (p.146) 14 Friedrich Hölderlin
- Source:
- Agamben's Philosophical Lineage
- Author(s):
Henrik Wilberg
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
In the preface to Stanzas, Agamben unambiguously provides the setting for his engagement with Friedrich Hölderlin: The name of Hölderlin – of a poet, that is, for whom poetry was above all problematic and who often hoped that it would be raised to the level of mechane (mechanical instrument) of the ancients so that its procedures could be calculated and taught – and the dialogue that with its utterance engages a thinker who no longer designates his own meditation with the name of ‘philosophy’ are invoked here to witness the urgency, for our culture, of rediscovering the unity of our fragmented word. (S xvii) Hölderlin is invoked as a poet who occupies a singular position among poets, one for whom poetry was ‘above all problematic’ – problematic in the sense that it persists as a discourse of recovery with regard to something that is not itself exclusively ‘poetic’. In this capacity, the peculiar fracture of poetic discourse in Hölderlin is a ‘witness to the urgency’ of what is singled out as the main theme of Stanzas: the scission, in ‘our culture’, between poetry and philosophy with regard to objects of experience. Complementing this problematisation of poetry in Hölderlin, however, is the equally problematic discourse of ‘a thinker who no longer designates his own meditations with the name of “philosophy”’.
Keywords: Friedrich Hölderlin, Martin Heidegger, Stanzas
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- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Agamben as a Reader
-
1 Aristotle -
2 Walter Benjamin -
3 Guy Debord -
4 Michel Foucault -
5 Martin Heidegger -
6 Paul the Apostle -
7 Carl Schmitt -
8 Hannah Arendt -
9 Georges Bataille -
10 Émile Benveniste -
11 Dante Alighieri -
12 Gilles Deleuze -
13 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -
14 Friedrich Hölderlin -
15 Franz Kafka -
16 Immanuel Kant -
17 Friedrich Nietzsche -
18 Plato -
19 Plotinus -
20 Marquis de Sade -
21 Baruch Spinoza -
22 Aby Warburg -
23 Theodor W. Adorno -
24 Jacques Derrida -
25 Sigmund Freud -
26 Jacques Lacan -
27 Karl Marx -
28 Antonio Negri -
29 Gershom Scholem -
30 Simone Weil - Conclusion: Agamben as a Reader of Agamben
- Contributors
- Index