Reply to: Re: poetry, language and music
In the Symposium, Diotoma is also thinking about the ambiguity of poiesis, =
which she suggests is analogous to the ambiguity of of Eros. In =
contemporary idiom, we could say there is eros and there is EROS, EROS =
being what all those other pale imitations mean(intend?) to be, but then =
miss the mark. And then to poiesis:
"You know that making ( poiesis) is something manifold: for surely the =
cause of passing from not being into being for anything whatever is all a =
making, so that the practitioners of them are all makers ( poietai)
" But nevertheless, you know that they are not called makers (poietai) but =
have other names, while from all making one single part has been =
subtracted, that concerned with music and meter, and given the name of the =
whole. For this alone is called poetry(poiesis), and those who have this =
part of making are called poets ( poietai)."
Sounds very Heidegger to me!
Allen
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In the Symposium, Diotoma is also thinking about the ambiguity of poiesis, =
which she suggests is analogous to the ambiguity of of Eros. In =
contemporary idiom, we could say there is eros and there is EROS, EROS =
being what all those other pale imitations mean(intend?) to be, but then =
miss the mark. And then to poiesis:
"You know that making ( poiesis) is something manifold: for surely the =
cause of passing from not being into being for anything whatever is all a =
making, so that the practitioners of them are all makers ( poietai)
" But nevertheless, you know that they are not called makers (poietai) but =
have other names, while from all making one single part has been =
subtracted, that concerned with music and meter, and given the name of the =
whole. For this alone is called poetry(poiesis), and those who have this =
part of making are called poets ( poietai)."
Sounds very Heidegger to me!
Allen
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