{"product_id":"mythopoetica-zeev-maor-9781940813073","title":"Mythopoetica: Holderlin and Bialik in a Hermeneutical Encounter","description":"Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) and Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934). Both poets, each within his culture, is of canonic stature, and each one's poetry as well as theory, has brought forth a rich field of research and interpretation. This book creates a hermeneutical encounter between the poetries of Hölderlin and Bialik and the interpretational and philosophical discourses orbiting their writing. A 'synoptic' reading is implemented and discloses a reflective similarity at the heart of their ars poetica. The encounter reveals how both poets are reacting similarly to the ongoing crisis at the foundations of modernity; the rift of tradition and the divesting of its myths of their historical authorities. This encounter invites a new reading of the poets' work, one that recognize a poetic (and political) mission that appear to be shared by both. A mission that struggles with the question of myth and its delivery across the shattered authority of its transcendental origin. It is a textual approach, viewing myth as a type of literature, and averting the focus from the question of the myth transcendental validity to the conditions of its im\/possible delivery. This 'poetico-political' approach, reveals the illusion of the binary opposition between de-mythologization and re-mythologization. It presents new possibilities which seem vital to our times; to speculate, beyond the insufficient dialectics, about a reconceptualization of a (modern) tradition, and about the transformations of 'myth' into a regenerative element in contemporary culture and politics. 'Myth' as inducing culture pathologies while also enabling cultural renewal at times of crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zeev Maor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940813077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940813073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atropos Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.52d","brand":"Zeev Maor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437163557119,"sku":"9781940813073","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c075d49c-8dcf-4b54-be63-459753e3dae7.jpg?v=1777160298","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mythopoetica-zeev-maor-9781940813073","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}