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An Ironic Approach to the Absolute
Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism
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2020
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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. Karolin Mirzakhan argues that although Schlegel’s ironic fragments proclaim their incompleteness in both their form and their content, they are the primary means for facilitating an intuition of the Absolute. Focusing on the techniques by which texts remain open, empty, or ungraspable, Mirzakhan’s analysis uncovers the methods that authors use to cultivate the agility of mind necessary for their readers to intuit the Absolute. Mirzakhan develops the term “poetic mysticism” to describe the experience of the Absolute made possible by particular textual moments,examining the Dao De Jing and Flow Chart to provide an original account of the striving to know the Absolute that is non-linear, non-totalizing, and attuned to non-presence. This conversation with ancient and contemporary poetic texts enacts the romantic imperative to join philosophy with poetry and advances a clearer communication of the notion of the Absolute that emerges from Schlegel’s romantic philosophy.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-7891-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-7892-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
119
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 An Ironic Approach No access Pages 1 - 34
2 To Be Ironic Is Divine: Hegel’s Aesthetics and the Threat of Irony No access Pages 35 - 58
3 Another Way to the Absolute:Language and Naming in the Dao De Jing No access Pages 59 - 86
4 How to Read a River:Poetic Mysticism in John Ashbery’s Flow Chart No access Pages 87 - 110
