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Book SynopsisThis text 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 a scene in which literature and philosophy become one.
Table of ContentsPreface 1: The Sensuality of Tragedy, the Tragedy of Sensuality Antiquity and Modernity: The Epochal Suspension of Empedocles Time, Tragic Downgoing, Affirmation Sensual Tragedy, Tragic Sensuality 2: Stuff. Thread. Point. Fire: Holderlin's Dissolution The Reproductive Act The Bypassed Terminus At the Burning Point Digression on Heidegger and Innigkeit Hyperbollipsis 3: The Source of the Wave: Rhythm in the Languages of Poetry and Thinking Antiphon The Animating Wave Fetters Saxifrage Rhythms of Presencing and Absencing 4: The Lunar Voice of the Sister The Selenic Situation of the Sister Upon the Being and Breast of a Girl The Generation of the Unborn Evil Most Furious. Dissension between Brother and Sister How to Gain a Sister? In (the) Place of God One Geschlecht: (S)he-lovers, Sea-lovers 5: "I, an Animal of the Forest...": Blanchot's Kafka The Feminine World and Literary Ambiguity The Animal Kingdom of the Writer Solitude, Silence, and the Sister The Narrative Voice An Incarnation Openly Bearing Its Emptiness The Burrow The Moss 6: Lunar Solitudes: The Eternal Return of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Eternal Recurrence? of the Same? Solitudes of Love and Rancor The Solitude of Parchment Index
