Abyss Above

Silke-Maria Weineck is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Michigan.

"…an original contribution to the study of philosophy and literature." — CHOICE"This book is a major contribution to the exploration of madness. Weineck's original readings demonstrate her admirable grasp of German intellectual history and literature. Her argumentation is sophisticated." — Karin Bauer, author of Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner"No one intending to think or write on Plato, Hölderlin, or Nietzsche can afford to do so without a knowledge of Weineck's chapters." — Stanley Corngold, author of Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature"Absolutely fascinating on every page. One learns from Weineck's way of putting things as well as from the points themselves. " — John McCumber, author of Poetic Interaction: Language, Freedom, Reason

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Future Perfect Cassandra, or the Belated Truth of MadnessTotal and Restricted MadnessThe Limits of Madness and the Limits of PhilosophyFrom Divine Reason to Madness under the Death of GodEpilogue 1. Talking About Homer: Poetic Madness, Philosophy, and the Birth of Criticism Talking about HomerPhaedrus: Madly Made MeaningPhilosophy's Mad Demon 2. The Abyss Above: Hölderlin: Madness, Philosophy, and Tragedy in the Absence of the Gods Introduction: Madness and the Labor of PoetryTranslating GreeceAntigone and Oedipus: Madness and Sign 3. Nietzsche: The Marketplaces of Madness Introduction: Nietzsche's Madness and the Fear of ContaminationNietzsche's Madmen (1): The Artist in the Ditch, or from Metaphysics to MetaphysiologyNietzsche's Madmen (2): Meta-Morality, or the Madness of New ThoughtNietzsche's Madmen (3): The Last Madman on the MarketplaceThe Hyperborean: La Vache Qui Danse Conclusion: Logos and Pallaksch: Paul Celan's "Tübingen, Jänner" AnachronyAppropriationAnamnesis Notes Bibliography Index