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Friedrich Holderlin
Essays and Letters on Theory
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Hardcover - 208 pages |
| Release Date: December 1987 |
ISBN10: 0-88706-558-9
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-558-3
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Paperback - 208 pages |
| Release Date: December 1987 |
ISBN10: 0-88706-559-7
ISBN13: 978-0-88706-559-0
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Holderlin's essays and letters constitute essential documents for an understanding of the transitional period from neo-classical poetics to what can only be characterized as a unique and, in its frequently experimental structure, essentially modernist poetics.
This book contains virtually all of Holderlin's theoretical writings translated for the first time. In spite of the great significance of Holderlin's ideas for contemporary critical thought, most of his highly important theoretical oeuvre has been unavailable to English readers until now. Here also are a number of letters which chart the development of Holderlin's thought on issues that today remain fundamental to poetics and philosophy.
The work's critical introduction discusses both the historical genesis of Holderlin's theoretical writings out of the enlightenment as well as their systematic interaction with post-Kantian Idealism. Through interpretations of three short fragments, Pfau indicates that it would be insufficient to consider Holderlin as the mere precursor of the great systematic philosophers of German Idealism--Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. Instead, Holderlin's earliest theoretical fragments already mark a turn away from the rigorous systematicity that underlies the philosophical discourse of his contemporaries. Holderlin's theoretical writings may be the most seminal texts in the widely discussed interimplication of Idealistic philosophy and Romantic poetry and poetics.
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Table of ContentsNotes on the Translation
List of Abbreviations
Friedrich Hölderlin: A Chronicle
Critical Introduction
Essays
On the Law of Freedom
On the Concept of Punishment
Judgment and Being
The Perspective from which We Have to Look at Antiquity
On the Different Forms of Poetic Composition
Reflection
"The Sages, however"
The Ground for Empedocles
On the Operations of the Poetic Spirit
On the Difference of Poetic Modes
The Significance of Tragedies
On Religion
Becoming in Dissolution
Remarks on "Oedipus"
Remarks on "Antigone"
Selected Letters
No. 41
To his Mother
No. 60
To Neuffer
No. 94
To Hegel
No. 97
To his Brother
No. 117
To Immanuel Niethammer
No. 121
To his Brother
No. 172
To his Brother
No. 183
To Neuffer
No. 186
To Schelling
No. 236
To Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorff
No. 240
To Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorff
The Oldest System-Program of German Idealism
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
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