Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

ma main gauche un reçu.—Mais les conséquences partiques ultérieures ne seraient pas celles d’une donation.^6 In such cases, the ...

must be clear to what extent my thought belongs to the present, to the future, or to the past. For with this I have also reveale ...

heimlich (“uncanny,” “sublime”).^9 Negative judgments are just as emphatic: Alfred Ehrenstein’s poetry is ein Hundedreck (“dog s ...

In the manuscript material left by Wittgenstein there are numerous notes which do not belong directly with his philosophical wor ...

dangerous. “Philosophy,” we read in his Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1931, “is not a choice between different ‘theories.’ It is wron ...

The way music speaks. Do not forget that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the l ...

Indeed, there is a “strange resemblance between a philosophical investiga- tion (especially in mathematics) and an aesthetic one ...

in the larger unit in which they are embedded. The surface word order, of course, will vary from language to language, according ...

following analysis of the meaning of the word interval in Wittgenstein’s Lec- tures, Cambridge 1932–1935. If we look at a river ...

“same” possibly mean in such verbal constructions? It is, as in the case of “interval,” the inherent difference between one same ...

ems, and each poem has nine strophes, ranging from a single line to a para- graph made of phrases and clauses, oddly punctuated ...

of miracles is three, that is, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, who are three and one, then this lady was accompanied by the number n ...

tant d’absence que tes yeux s’approchent de rien Rosmarie Waldrop’s translation follows the original closely, even as she can re ...

nothing.” But as in Wittgenstein’s riddling propositions, Roubaud’s “simple” diction is nothing if not enigmatic. How does the e ...

Then, that you and your death shared no family trait. It seems simple. hence: no grounds for dif¤culties or demands for rude int ...

this was no lie”). It is a statement that takes us back to the question of the dog’s “honesty” above. Indeed, the beloved who ha ...

ate wake of the Philosophical Investigations. Consider Samuel Beckett, whose great Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) ...

erence to “It is I who live there now” (Ich wohne jetzt selbst darin) suggests that this hasn’t always been the case. In Wittgen ...

In the fall of 1998, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University held a conference on the work of Eugene Jolas called “ The ...

to Europe. What Jolas called “the long pilgrimage... through the empires of three languages” (65) was in many ways a great gift, ...