The poet as phenomenologist
Subtitle: Rilke and the new poems
By: Luke Fischer
Series: New directions in German studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781628925432
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Aesthetics; Phenomenology and literature; Literature; Philosophy; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
Other titles: Rilke and the new poems
Description: "The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, Luke Fischer makes a new contribution to the tradition of phenomenological poetics and expands the debate among Germanists concerning the phenomenological status of Rilke's poetry, which has been severely limited to comparisons of Rilke and Husserl. Fischer explicates an implicit phenomenology of perception in Rilke's writings from his middle period (1902-1910). He argues that Rilke cultivated an artistic perception that, in a philosophically significant manner, overcomes the opposition between the sensuous and the intelligible while simultaneously transcending the boundaries of philosophy. Fischer offers novel interpretations of central poems from Rilke's Neue Gedichte (1907) and Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil (1908) and frames them as the ultimate articulation of Rilke's non-dualistic vision. He thus demonstrates the continuity between Rilke and phenomenology while arguing that poetry, in this case, provides the most adequate response to a philosophical problem"--

"A groundbreaking contribution to Rilke scholarship that significantly expands the existing debate concerning the relation between Rilke's poetry and phenomenological philosophy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction Chapter 1. Phenomenology and the Problem of Dualism Chapter 2. Learning to See: Rilke and the Visual Arts Chapter 3. Rilke as Seer: A Twofold Vision of Nature Chapter 4. The Neue Gedichte as a Twofold Imagining of Things. Conclusion. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.