If your web browser has the MIT Curl plugin installed and you have an interest in maritime literature or Joseph Conrad, I have posted a page at aule-browser.com with an extract from the opening of Heart of Darkness and entitled it A Night on the River.
I have tried to keep my alterations to a minimum. Many readers may recall the opening of Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo - for me today it is the opening of HErmann Broch's Der Tod des Vergils.
A literary ship into harbor is the next best thing to a scene of seduction both invited and intended - although the Conrad may have more of the feel of tristus.
One passage is a link to the Hölderlin shuttle or launch of my last post.
Showing posts with label Hölderlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hölderlin. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Broch and Hölderlin
I am looking for a scholarly reference that ties Friedrich Hölderlin's sketch for a poem starting »Wie Meeresküsten« to Hermann Broch's great prose work »Der Tod des Virgils«. If you are aware of one, please post a note or drop me a line.
If you have installed the MIT Curl plugin for your web browser, then you can see my notes at poets.aule-browser.com
What I note there is the verb »schifft« which, while it occurs in English, renders translation difficult - as today we ship parcels and sailors ship off to sea but a vessel is not easily said to "ship" but rather "sails" or "courses" or "plies" or "plows" - but there is a hint of more: Schifflein is the weaver's shuttle.
I will build a page to berth the opening paragraph of the Broch alongside Hölderlin's mere sketch and pay across some lines with links.
If you have installed the MIT Curl plugin for your web browser, then you can see my notes at poets.aule-browser.com
What I note there is the verb »schifft« which, while it occurs in English, renders translation difficult - as today we ship parcels and sailors ship off to sea but a vessel is not easily said to "ship" but rather "sails" or "courses" or "plies" or "plows" - but there is a hint of more: Schifflein is the weaver's shuttle.
I will build a page to berth the opening paragraph of the Broch alongside Hölderlin's mere sketch and pay across some lines with links.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tarski or Heidegger: 1929 and 1930
From the years 1929 and 1930, Heidegger has left behind the work that marks his break with Husserl and phenomenology and some very clear signs of his embrace of Ernst Jünger and a radical conservative revolution - and an extreme cult "historical" nationalism that Heidegger never renounced and for which he never apologized to its victims - especially the Polish (mourning to Marcuse only the displaced Ost-Deutschen - the theme he likely took with Paul Celan.)
Tarski, on the other hand, left logic with ground-breaking work in each of those years. One reason that I mention this is that Tarski was the teacher of Julia Robinson.
We now know the role that Husserl played in the fate of both Edith Stein and Afra Geiger: Heidegger worked briefly with the former and Hannah Arendt mentions the latter in her correspondence with him. Jaspers reports being with Heidegger at Husserl's home in Freiburg and raising the case of his student, Afra Geiger.
Afra Geiger's fate was to perish in the Ravensbrück death camp.
Had Afra Geiger been accepted by Husserl, had Husserl not written his back-handed letter on Stein to the Göttingen philosophy department (and had they met in the open) both young philosophers might have survived.
When a young philosophy student - about to graduate - remarked to me that his university, having no graduate school, had no course on Heidegger - I tried to explain that this was no loss. Better a course on Jaspers or Cassirer. I should have said: better a course on Twardowski and Tarski.
And what of Cassirer? In 1942, Susanne Langer publishes "Philosophy in a New Key". To read its last chapter and then the gnome's 1943 publication, "Vom Wesen der Wahrheit" is very sobering. Imagine for a moment that Langer had any reason to feel that some lectures of hers in Germany in the early thirties had led to some misplaced enthusiasm for conservative extremism - imagine with what feeling she would have announced a correction, a clarification, in 1943 - or in subsequent editions.
Cassirer, like Paul Valéry, died in 1945 and so was not able to reply to Heidegger when he resumed teaching at Freiburg after his all-too-brief exclusion. Valéry on poetry or Heidegger? Michael Hamburger on Mallarmé or Walter Biemel deferring to the Master?
When Heidegger opens his lecture on Hölderlin and the Essence of poetry, he make a fallacious claim which Tarski would have disposed of immediately. So even there, perhaps better Tarski on Mereology for poetics (which via Kit Fine leads back to the Husserl of the LU) than Heidegger on fate, the people and historical up-rising.
Tarski, on the other hand, left logic with ground-breaking work in each of those years. One reason that I mention this is that Tarski was the teacher of Julia Robinson.
We now know the role that Husserl played in the fate of both Edith Stein and Afra Geiger: Heidegger worked briefly with the former and Hannah Arendt mentions the latter in her correspondence with him. Jaspers reports being with Heidegger at Husserl's home in Freiburg and raising the case of his student, Afra Geiger.
Afra Geiger's fate was to perish in the Ravensbrück death camp.
Had Afra Geiger been accepted by Husserl, had Husserl not written his back-handed letter on Stein to the Göttingen philosophy department (and had they met in the open) both young philosophers might have survived.
When a young philosophy student - about to graduate - remarked to me that his university, having no graduate school, had no course on Heidegger - I tried to explain that this was no loss. Better a course on Jaspers or Cassirer. I should have said: better a course on Twardowski and Tarski.
And what of Cassirer? In 1942, Susanne Langer publishes "Philosophy in a New Key". To read its last chapter and then the gnome's 1943 publication, "Vom Wesen der Wahrheit" is very sobering. Imagine for a moment that Langer had any reason to feel that some lectures of hers in Germany in the early thirties had led to some misplaced enthusiasm for conservative extremism - imagine with what feeling she would have announced a correction, a clarification, in 1943 - or in subsequent editions.
Cassirer, like Paul Valéry, died in 1945 and so was not able to reply to Heidegger when he resumed teaching at Freiburg after his all-too-brief exclusion. Valéry on poetry or Heidegger? Michael Hamburger on Mallarmé or Walter Biemel deferring to the Master?
When Heidegger opens his lecture on Hölderlin and the Essence of poetry, he make a fallacious claim which Tarski would have disposed of immediately. So even there, perhaps better Tarski on Mereology for poetics (which via Kit Fine leads back to the Husserl of the LU) than Heidegger on fate, the people and historical up-rising.
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