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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.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part One: The Mark of a Poem

1. Repeat: The Experience of Poetic Language

The Turning of Logos
Saying the Same
The Limit of Writing
Again, Anew

2. Hiding: Figures of Cryptophilia in the Work of Art

Earth and Phusis
Draw-ing and Polemos
Poetry and Logos
Thesis: Stellen: Peras

3. Beyond: The Limits of the Word in Heidegger and Blanchot

The Reading of the Word
The Writing of the Word
The Position of the Word

Part Two: The Repetition of Language

4. Suspending: The Translation of Tragedy in Hölderlin’s Essays

The Chiasmic Ground of Empedocles
The Caesura of Oedipus
The Eccentricity of Antigone
The Rhythm of Dysmoron

5. A Void: Writing and the Essence of Language

Bearing Out
The Pain of Language
Into the Space of Renunciation
In Palimpsest

6. Fragmenting: L’iter-rature of Relation

“Without return”
. . .
“Never repeat”
(Refrain)

Notes
Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

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EAN13

9780791479704

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

WilliamS.Allen

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

Ellipsis

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy DENNISJ. SCHMIDT,EDITOR

Ellipsis

Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot

William S. Allen

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Allen, William S., 1971– Ellipsis : of poetry and the experience of language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot / William S. Allen. p. cm. — (SUNY series in contemporary continental philosopy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-7151-7 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Philosophy, Modern—20th century. 2. Poetry. 3. Language and languages—Philosophy. 4. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. 5. Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770–1843. 6. Blanchot, Maurice. I. Title.

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Nur das Einmalige ist wieder-holbar (Only the singular is re-peatable)

Martin Heidegger, 1936–37

Tu appelleras désormais poème une certaine passion de la marque singulière (You will call poem from now on a certain passion of the singular mark) Jacques Derrida, November 1988

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PARTONE:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

THEMARK OF APOEM

Repeat: The Experience of Poetic Language The Turning ofLogos Saying the Same The Limit of Writing Again, Anew

Hiding: Figures of Cryptophilia in the Work of Art Earth andPhusis Draw-ing andPolemos Poetry andLogos Thesis: Stellen:Peras

Beyond: The Limits of the Word in Heidegger and Blanchot The Reading of the Word The Writing of the Word The Position of the Word

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PARTTWO:

CONTENTS

THEREPETITION OFLANGUAGE

Suspending: The Translation of Tragedy in Hölderlin’s Essays The Chiasmic Ground ofEmpedocles The Caesura ofOedipus The Eccentricity ofAntigone The Rhythm ofDysmoron

A Void: Writing and the Essence of Language Bearing Out The Pain of Language Into the Space of Renunciation In Palimpsest

Fragmenting: L’iter-rature of Relation “Without return” . . . “Never repeat” (Refrain)

Notes Index

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153 158 162 170 182

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Acknowledgments

I must express my gratitude firstly to Paul Davies, Chris Fynsk, and to an anonymous reader at the State University of New York Press who carefully read earlier drafts of this work and who gave some much needed support and critical commentary. Above all, the development of this work has been made possible by two very significant figures in my life: Miguel de Beis-tegui and Anna Johnson. Miguel has provided the essence of careful and discreet guidance, constantly surprising me with the precision of his com-ments and the generosity of his support. Anna’s presence breathes through every word and phrase of this work as a persistent reminder of why I should be doing it, why the perseverance and the exactitude required by such a project have an importance far beyond the project itself; it is thus to her that this work is dedicated.

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