Ellipsis : Of Poetry and the Experience of Language After Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot

William S Allen

ISBN 10: 0791471527 / ISBN 13: 9780791471524

Edité par State University Of New York Press Jun 2008, 2008

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• Titre: Ellipsis : Of Poetry and the Experience of Language After Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot
• Éditeur: State University Of New York Press Jun 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0791471527
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780791471524
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 154 H x 22 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 22 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 351 grammes

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Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot.

What is the nature of poetic language when its experience involves an encounter with finitude; with failure, loss, and absence? For Martin Heidegger this experience is central to any thinking that would seek to articulate the meaning of being, but for Friedrich Hölderlin and Maurice Blanchot it is a mark of the tragic and unanswerable demands of poetic language. In Ellipsis, a rigorous, original study on the language of poetry, the language of philosophy, and the limits of the word, William S. Allen offers the first in-depth examination of the development of Heidegger’s thinking of poetic language—which remains his most radical and yet most misunderstood work—that carefully balances it with the impossible demands of this experience of finitude, an experience of which Hölderlin and Blanchot have provided the most searching examinations. In bringing language up against its limits, Allen shows that poetic language not only exposes thinking to its abyssal grounds, but also indicates how the limits of our existence come themselves, traumatically, impossibly, to speak.

“This is a very serious work of thought that makes a valuable contribution to current discussions about language in the writings of Heidegger and Hölderlin. There are passages that are memorable not only for their insightfulness, but also because in an extremely condensed formulation, a genuinely original intuition is articulated with clarity and precision. It is a virtuoso performance.”  — David Michael Kleinberg-Levin, author of Gestures of Ethical Life: Reading Hölderlin’s Question of Measure After Heidegger

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William S. Allen is an independent scholar who received his PhD from the University of Warwick, England.