Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Illustrations
• PHILOSOPHY, PHILOLOGY, POETRY
• 1. Philosophy and the Poetic Eros of Thought
• 2. Philology and Aphoristic Style: Rhetoric, Sources, and Writing in Blood
• 3. The Birth of Tragedy: Lyric Poetry and the Music of Words
• 4. Nietzsche’s “Gay Science”: Poetry and Love, Science and Music
• 5. Pindar’s Becoming: Translating the Imperatives of Praise
• MUSIC, PAIN, EROS
• 6. Philosophy as Music
• 7. Songs of the Sun: Hölderlin in Venice
• 8. On Pain and Tragic Joy: Nietzsche and Hölderlin
• 9. Nietzsche’s Erotic Artist as Actor/Jew/Woman
• ART, NATURE, CALCULATION
• 10. Chaos and Culture
• 11. The Ethos of Nature and Art: Hölderlin’s Ecological Politics
• 12. The Work of Art and the Museum: Heidegger, Schapiro, Gadamer
• 13. The Ethical Alpha and Heidegger’s Linguistic Omega: On the Inner Affinity Between Germany and Greece
• 14. Heidegger’s Beiträge as Will to Power
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index