Ironic Approach to the Absolute - Schlegels Poetic Mysticism

An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Paradox and Philosophizing Together

1. An Ironic Approach

2. To Be Ironic Is Divine: Hegel's Aesthetics and the Threat of Irony

3. Another Way to the Absolute: Language and Naming in the Dao De Jing

4. How to Read a River: Poetic Mysticism in John Ashbery's Flow Chart

Bibliography

About the Author

A propos de l'auteur

By Karolin Mirzakhan

Résumé

An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel’s ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery’s Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader’s desire to comprehend them fully.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Karolin Mirzakhan
• Edition: Lexington Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781498578936
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7893-6
• Pages: 128
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, RELIGION / Mysticism, Comparative Literature, mysticism, Literature: history & criticism