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Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 (Hardcover)
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Hölderlin′s Madness – Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 (Hardcover)
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One of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben,
analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets,
Friedrich Hölderlin. What does it mean to inhabit a place or a
self? What is a habit? And, for human beings, doesn’t living
mean—first and foremost—inhabiting? Pairing a detailed
chronology of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s years of
purported madness with a new examination of texts often considered
unreadable, Giorgio Agamben's new book aims to describe and
comprehend a life that the poet himself called habitual and
inhabited. Hölderlin’s life was split neatly in two: his
first 36 years, from 1770 to 1806; and the 36 years from 1807 to
1843, which he spent as a madman holed up in the home of Ernst
Zimmer, a carpenter. The poet lived the first half of his existence
out and about in the broader world, relatively engaged with current
events, only to then spend the second half entirely cut off from
the outside world. Despite occasional visitors, it was as if a wall
separated him from all external events and relationships. For
reasons that may well eventually become clear, Hölderlin chose to
expunge all character—historical, social, or otherwise—from the
actions and gestures of his daily life. According to his earliest
biographer, he often stubbornly repeated, “nothing happens to
me.” Such a life can only be the subject of a chronology—not a
biography, much less a clinical or psychological analysis.
Nevertheless, this book suggests that this is precisely how
Hölderlin offers humanity an entirely other notion of what it
means to live. Although we have yet to grasp the political
significance of his unprecedented way of life, it now clearly
speaks directly to our own.
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