Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Sunday, March 06, 2005

The song

treats the essence of philosophy
its purpose:
to understand the relationship
to the other -
an other too much other to be other.
So it is one, as nothing can exceed
the limits of thought, a limit that
in its thinking thinks beyond it.
One is any relationship in its simply
being a relationship, an identity -
without which difference would conquer.
In naming the other as other you are
naming yourself as other, and both,
hence, as one.
To get closer is the onening of otherness.
Intimacy, otherness's dissolution.
Yet the other remains wholly other.
Even while there is oneness.
Difference remains in the distinction
between being and appearance
that annuls the identity that in
intimacy annuls the difference.
The others otherness is wholly different
yet wholly identical to my otherness
as wholly different
to the other.

This is precisely why it is in the song that the relation to the other is strengthened - its goal, its purpose is this realization of the identity within our differences as basic difference: this cannot be, for it would mean that the individual, in itself and in its in itself relations to others is a contradiction. Reality, in the relationship, is a contradiction. Or is it a paradox? The paradox that lies at the heart of truth, for truth's heart is pragmatic or subjective.

posted by irrefutable | 1:35 AM

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