This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich
Hoelderlin (1770 - 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It
shows Hoelderlin's poetry is unique within Western literature (and
art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time
and language to challenge the estrangement of humans from nature
and one other. In this book, author Lucas Murrey presents a new
picture of ancient Greece, noting that money emerged and rapidly
developed there in the sixth century B.C. This act of monetization
brought with it a concept of tragedy: money-tyrants struggling
against the forces of earth and community who succumb to individual
isolation, blindness and death. As Murrey points out, Hoelderlin
(unconsciously) retrieves the battle between money, nature and
community and creatively applies its lessons to our time. But
Hoelderlin's poetry not only adapts tragedy to question the
unlimited "machine process" of "a clever race" of money-tyrants. It
also draws attention to Greece's warnings about the mortal danger
of the eyes in myth, cult and theatre. This monograph thus
introduces an urgently needed vision not only of Hoelderlin hymns,
but also the relevance of disciplines as diverse as Literary
Studies, Philosophy, Psychology (Psychoanalysis) as well as
Religious and Visual (Media) Studies to our present predicament,
where a dangerous visual culture, through its support of the
unlimitedness of money, is harming our relation to nature and one
another. "Here triumphs a temperament guided by ancient religion
and that excavates, in Hoelderlin's translations, the central god
Dionysus of Greek tragedy." "Lucas Murrey shares with his subject,
Hoelderlin, a vision of the Greeks as bringing something vitally
important into our poor world, a vision of which few classical
scholars are now capable." -Richard Seaford, author of Money and
the Early Greek Mind and Dionysus. "Here triumphs a temperament
guided by ancient religion and that excavates, in Hoelderlin's
translations, the central god Dionysus of Greek tragedy." -Bernhard
Boeschenstein, author of "Frucht des Gewitters". Zu Hoelderlins
Dionysos als Gott der Revolution and Paul Celan: Der Meridian.
"Lucas Murrey takes the god of tragedy, Dionysus, finally serious
as a manifestation of the ecstatic scream of liberation and visual
strategies of dissolution: he pleasantly portrays Hoelderlin's
idiosyncratic poetic sympathy." -Anton Bierl, author of Der Chor in
der Alten Komoedie. Ritual and Performativitat "Hoelderlin most
surely deserved such a book." -Jean-Francois Kervegan, author of
Que faire de Carl Schmitt? "...fascinating material..." -Noam
Chomsky, author of Media Control and Nuclear War and Environmental
Catastrophe.
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