Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics by Scott Weintraub

Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus”: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives sheds new light on the philosophical significance of Rilke’s late masterpiece The Sonnets to Orpheus (1923), which Rilke wrote during an intensive period of inspiration in the winter of 1922. While the Duino Elegies (completed during the same period) have historically received more critical and philosophical attention than the Sonnets, this volume serves to remedy the relative neglect and illustrates the unique character and importance of the Sonnets as well as their significant connections to the Elegies. The volume features eight essays by philosophers, literary critics, and Rilke scholars, which explore a number of the central themes and motifs of the Sonnets as well as the significance of their formal qualities. An introductory essay (coauthored by the editors) situates the book in the context of philosophical poetics, the reception of Rilke as a philosophical poet, and the place of the Sonnets in Rilke’s oeuvre. The book’s premise is that an interdisciplinary approach to poetry, and more specifically to Rilke’s Sonnets, can facilitate crucial insights with the potential to expand the horizons of philosophy and criticism. The wide-ranging essays elucidate the relevance of the Sonnets to phenomenology and existentialism, hermeneutics and philosophy of language, philosophical poetics, philosophy of mythology, metaphysics, modernist aesthetics, feminism, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and philosophy of technology.

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Experiment on Repetition: Introduction to the Philosophical Poetics of Soren Kierkegaard

Russian Studies in Philosophy ◽

10.1080/10611967.2005.11063497 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 71-86

Author(s):

L.V. TSYPINA

Keyword(s):

Soren Kierkegaard ◽

Philosophical Poetics

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Paul de Man's Philosophical Poetics

Philosophy Compass ◽

10.1111/phc3.12101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1-10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tom Eyers

Keyword(s):

Philosophical Poetics

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Wittgenstein's Tractatus as Poetic Philosophy and Philosophical Poetics

Poetics Today ◽

10.1215/03335372-9356837 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 519-540

Author(s):

Józef Bremer

Keyword(s):

Ordinary Language ◽

Final Part ◽

Gottlob Frege ◽

Logical Space ◽

The World ◽

Philosophical Poetics

Abstract This article argues that it is helpful to discuss the logico-philosophical contents of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in terms that confront the poetic and literary qualities of its form and style. To begin with, it analyzes Wittgenstein's short remarks about expression as manifested in the “tone” of Georg Trakl's poetry and the “ineffability” of Ludwig Uhland's poem “Count Eberhard's Hawthorn.” Then it proceeds to consider his exchange of letters with Gottlob Frege about the form and style of the Tractatus. The final part of the article considers such Tractarian metaphors as “showing and saying,” “logical space,” “reflecting the world as in a mirror,” “ineffability,” and “climbing and throwing away a ladder.” The proposed examination concentrates mainly on the distinction—but also the connection—between what, through language as used in both philosophy and poetry, can be said and what can be shown, this being one of the central themes of the Tractatus itself. It is then claimed that the roots of Wittgenstein's later understanding of both “ordinary language” and the connection between philosophy, poetry, and the ethical form of one's life are already present in his first period of creativity.

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