Hḻderlin?s Dionysiac Poetry: The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries

This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hḻderlin (1770 ? 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hḻderlin?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, Hḻderlin (unconsciously) retrieves the battle between money, nature and community and creatively applies its lessons to our time. But Hḻderlin?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 Hḻderlin 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 Hḻderlin?s translations, the central god Dionysus of Greek tragedy." ?Bernhard B̲schenstein, author of "Frucht des Gewitters". Zu Hḻderlins Dionysos als Gott der Revolution and Paul Celan: Der Meridian. Endfassung?Entwürfe?Materialien. "Lucas Murrey shares with his subject, Hḻderlin, 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. Homer, Tragedy, Philosophy and Dionysus. "Hḻderlin deserved such a book." ?Jean-Franȯis Kervǧan, author of Que faire de Carl Schmitt? "...fascinating material..." ?Noam Chomsky, author of Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda and Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes -- Chapter 2: The Dionysiac Chronotope -- Chapter 3: The Visualised Chronotope -- Chapter 4: Dionysiac Language -- PART II: The Time After -- Chapter 5: Visual and Linguistic Nihilism -- Chapter 6: "Wakers-of-the-Dead" -- Part III: Hḻderlin?s Retrieval of Dionysiac and Visualised Chronotopes -- Chapter 7: The Dionysiac Chronotope (Pre-1799-1799) -- Chapter 8: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1799-1802) -- Chapter 9: The Dionysiac Chronotope (1802-1804 and after) -- Chapter 10: Dionysiac Language (Pre-1799-1802) -- Chapter 11: Dionysiac Language (1802-1804 and after) -- PART IV: Conclusion -- Chapter 12: Nationalism -- Chapter 13: Christianity -- Chapter 14: Hḻderlinian Hyperabstractions -- CODA: "Holy Madness"? -- Index -- Bibliography.