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Fall 2007 Advance Course
Information
This information is effective for fall 2007. Check with the instructor the
first day of class for any changes.
History of Consciousness
[HISC-102]
102. Philosophy and Poetics.
Instructor:
David Marriott
Phone:
9-4650 (office)
E-mail:
marriott@ucsc.edu
The aim of this course is to offer an introduction to the relation between philosophy and poetics in some major 19th/20th century poets and thinkers. Beginning with G. W.F. Hegel’s famous account of poetics in the
Aesthetics
, the course will follow the effects of this reading in Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida. In the second part of the course we shall consider re-readings of the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin and Paul Celan as proposed by Peter Szondi, Paul De Man, Philippe Lacoue-Labarth, and Maurice Blanchot.
Requirements:
All students are required to attend class.
Assessment:
1 midterm and one final paper at end of course.
Schedule:
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24 September
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Introductory session: ‘Philosophy and Poetics’
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26 September
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Aesthetics (1) Kant,
The Critique of Judgement
(
CJ
), ‘Analytic of the Beautiful’, Sections §1-22; and ‘Of Taste as a Kind of
Sensus Communis
’ Section §40.
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1 October
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Kant ‘Aesthetic Judgement’, continued (
CJ)
.
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3 October
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Kant, Art, genius, and aesthetic ideas (
CJ
), Sections §45-50
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8 October
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Aesthetics (II) Hegel, The priority of art over nature and the demand for philosophical reflection,
Aesthetics: Lectures on
Fine Art
(
A
),
Introduction
, Section 1
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10 October
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Hegel, Beauty as truth: the essence of appearance (
A
),
Introduction
, sections II-IV
.
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15 October
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Hegel, History and the end of art: toward art’s autonomy (
A
),
Introduction
, section V
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17 October
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Nietzsche,
The Birth of Tragedy
, sections §1-15.
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22 October
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Translation (I): Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Judgement and Being’ and ‘Reflexion’,
Essays and Letters on Theory
. Walter Benjamin, ‘The Task of the Translator’,
Illuminations
. (Supplementary reading: Richard Sieburth, ‘Introduction’, Hölderlin
Hymns and Fragments
.)
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24 October
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Translation (II): Friedrich Hölderlin, on tragedy and ‘Letter to Bohlendorff, 4 December 1801’,
Essays and Letters on Theory
. Maurice Blanchot, ‘Translating’. (Supplementary reading: Haroldo de Campos, ‘Hölderlin’s Red Word’, in)
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29 October
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Parataxis (I): Theodor W. Adorno, "Parataxis: On Hölderlin's Late Poetry,"
Notes to Literature
, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), II, 109-49.
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31 October
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Walter Benjamin, "Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin--'The Poet's Courage' and 'Timidity,'" in
Selected Writings. Volume 1, 1913-1926
, edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1996). (Supplementary Reading: Beatrice Hansen, ‘”Dichtermut” and “Blödigkeit”: Two Poems by Hölderlin Interpreted by Walter Benjamin’ in
MLN
, Vol. 112, No. 5 (1997), 786-816; Michael Jennings, "Benjamin as a Reader of Hölderlin: The Origins of Benjamin's Theory of Literary Criticism" in
German Quarterly
56 (1983), 544-62.
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5 November
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Parataxis (II): Martin Heidegger, ‘Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry,’
Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry
: 51-67. (Supplementary reading: Paul de Man, ‘Heidegger’s Exegeses of Hölderlin’, in
Blindness and Insight. Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
(London: Routledge, 1983).)
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7 November
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Martin Heidegger, ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’,
Poetry, Language, Thought
.
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12 November
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Holiday (no class)
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14 November
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Techne (I): Paul Celan, ‘The Meridian’. (Supplementary reading: Jacques Derrida, ‘Poetics and Politics of Witnessing’,
Sovereignties in Question
).
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19 November
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Celan, ‘The Meridian’ continued. (Supplementary reading: Lacoue-Labarthe, ‘Two Poems by Paul Celan’,
Poetry as Experience
; Peter Szondi,
Celan Studies
)
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21 November
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Techne (II): Celan, selections of poems. (Supplementary reading: Maurice Blanchot,
The Step Not Beyond
; Emmanuel Levinas,
Proper Names
)
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26 November
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Techne (III): Celan, “Conversation in the Mountains” and selections from Adorno,
Negative Aesthetics
(Supplementary Reading: John Felstiner, " 'Goodbye Silence': Paul Celan's 'Conversation in the Mountains,'"
Stanford Humanities Review
1, no. 1 (Spring 1989): 33-43.
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28 November
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“Conversation in the Mountains” continued.
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3 December
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Conclusion (I): The end of poetry: Adorno,
Negative Dialectics
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5 December
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Conclusion (II): The end of philosophy: Adorno,
Negative Dialectics
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