Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice

Charles Bambach

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What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore the sources of ethical life in a new way. Charles Bambach engages the works of two philosophical poets who stand as the bookends of modernity—Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul Celan (1920–1970)—offering close textual readings of poems from each that define and express some of the crucial problems of German philosophical thought in the twentieth century: tensions between the native and the foreign, the proper and the strange, the self and the other. At the center of this philosophical conversation between Hölderlin and Celan, Bambach places the work of Martin Heidegger to rethink the question of justice in a nonlegal, nonmoral register by understanding it in terms of poetic measure. Focusing on Hölderlin's and Heidegger's readings of pre-Socratic philosophy and Greek tragedy, as well as on Celan's reading of Kabbalah, he frames the problem of poetic justice against the trauma of German destruction in the twentieth century.
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Thinking Poetic Measure

Measuring the Poetic Measure of Justice
Heidegger’s Poetic Measure: An Ethics of Haunting
Hölderlin’s Heraclitean Measure
Celan and the (Im)possibility of Justice

1. The Hölderlinian Measure of Poetic Justice

“The Signs of the Times”: “Patmos”
“The Evening of Time”: “Peace” (Der Frieden)
The Böhlendorff Logic
The Ethos of Guest-Friendship and the “Oriental Other“
The Ister: The Ethical Measure of Dwelling
The Pindaric Measure
The Hölderlinian Justice and the Mediation of Difference
The Measure of the Incommensurable: “In lovely blueness”

2. Heideggerian ‘Justice’ as Dike

The Strangeness of Justice
The History of Being and the Question of Justice
Dwelling Amidst the Ruins: Ethos, Originary Ethics, and the Abode of Human Being
Aristotelian Ethos Before the Kehre
Ethics-Physics-Logic
Anaximander’s Dike and the Question of Justice
Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and Justice
Dike and Originary Ethics
Genesis-Phthora-Dike
Heidegger’s Poetic Measure: The Hölderlinian Ethos of Dwelling

3. Paul Celan: The Poetics of Caesura

Of a Justice to Come: Derrida, Celan, and the Aporetics of Justice
Celan’s Pneumatic Jewish Identity
“Tübingen, Jänner”
Zur Blindheit über-redete Augen”
“Todtnauberg”: The Conditions of the (Im)Possibility of Dialog
“Todtnauberg”: A Reading
The Jerusalem Poems: Eros as Eschatology
“Zeitgehöft”: Homestead of Time

Postscript
Notes
Index

Sujets

• Philosophy
• Germany

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 21 mai 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438445823
• Langue: English

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SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

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THINKING THE POETIC MEASURE OF JUSTICE
Hölderlin–Heidegger–Celan
CHARLES BAMBACH
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Thinking the poetic measure of justice : Hölderlin–Heidegger–Celan / Charles Bambach.
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1. Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. 2. Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770–1843. 3. Celan, Paul. 4. Justice. I. Title.
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For Lucy—and for Rolf and my brother John

Justice, justice shall you pursue
—Deuteronomy 16:20
ABBREVIATIONS

Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are my own. At times I modify existing translations to provide a terminology consistent throughout this book. Sometimes I will also provide alternate translations of the same terms depending on context.
SS Summer Semester WS Winter Semester

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