The Poet As Phenomenologist Rilke And The New Poems Luke Fischer by Luke Fischer 9781628925432, 9781501304880, 1628925434, 1501304887 instant download after payment.

The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke’s poetry and phenomenological philosophy, and illustrates the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. In its articulation of Rilke’s philosophical significance, it draws on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty as well as literature from leading international Rilke scholars. It makes a new contribution to the tradition of phenomenological poetics that begins with Heidegger’s readings of Hölderlin and expands the debate among Germanists concerning the phenomenological status of Rilke’s poetry, which has been severely limited to comparisons of Rilke and Husserl.
After introducing the problem of dualism and demonstrating the need for a phenomenological resolution, the book explicates an implicit phenomenology of perception in Rilke’s writings from his middle period (1902-1910). It argues that Rilke cultivated an artistic perception (largely inspired by the French visual artists, Rodin and Cézanne) that, in a philosophically significant manner, overcomes the opposition between the sensuous and the intelligible while simultaneously transcending the boundaries of philosophy. Fischer offers novel interpretations of central poems from Rilke’s Neue Gedichte (New Poems, 1907) and Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil (New Poems: The Other Part, 1908) and explicates them as the ultimate articulation of Rilke’s non-dualistic vision. The Poet as Phenomenologist thus demonstrates the continuity between Rilke and phenomenology while arguing that poetry, in this case, provides the most adequate response to a philosophical problem.