Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought

by David Farrell Krell

Book Overview

David Farrell Krell reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot, and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy, and death. The moon provides a unifying image that guides Krell's development of a new poetics in which literature and philosophy become one.

Krell pursues important philosophical motifs such as time, rhythm, and desire, through texts by Nietzsche,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226452778
• ISBN13: 9780226452777
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

How does one negotiate the complicated folding of philosophy, and literature? For David Farrell Krell, the answer lies in uncovering the poetic rhythm of thought itself. This is an extraordinary little work of continental scholarship with cutting-edge essays on Holderlin-Nietztsche- Empedocles, on Heidegger-Derrida-Trakl, on Kafka-Blanchot-Garcia Marquez, and of course the 'lunar voice of the sister.' Krell examines a variety of philosophical themes that emerge in literature, such as Nietzsche's 'eternal return' in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' There is some truly acute research on Holderlin going on here, and Krell has clearly marked his mastery of the late poetic Heidegger. An important text for any traditional Anglo-American who would rather see philosophy consigned to the sterility of the "bare bones" of the argument. Rich and creatively written.