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- Title
Foucault's Hölderlin.
- Authors
Kistner, Ulrike
- Abstract
This article traces the dispersal of language, its significance for Foucault's idea of Literature in modernity, and the paradigmatic role of Hölderlin's writings within it. This path centrally involves outlining the interface, in the modern episteme, between language and Literature, the double withdrawal of the gods/God, the double division between reason and madness, and the "mad poet/philosopher/genius" within it. The article draws together Foucault's archaeological account of Literature, and his genealogy of madness and of genius, in order to elucidate the "truth", judged by the terms of a genealogical account, and the "falsity", judged by the terms of an archaeological account, of the proverbial epithet "the mad genius/poet/philosopher" associated with the name of Hölderlin.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; MODERNISM (Literature); FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; PARADIGM (Linguistics); HOLDERLIN, Friedrich, 1770-1843; ARCHAEOLOGY &; literature; TRUTH in literature
- Publication
Journal of Literary Studies, 2006, Vol 22, Issue 3/4, p275
- ISSN
0256-4718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/02564710608530404