The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche PDF
Title The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche
Author Stefan Zweig
Publisher Pushkin Press
Category Literary Bios
Released Date 2012-08-31
Language English
Format EPUB
Pages 313
Total Downloads 564
Total Views 1,134
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Summary
The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche - powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad but inspired them to great works. In their struggle with their inner creative force, Zweig reflects the conflict at the heart of the European soul - between science and art, reason and inspiration....
Chapter List (50 chapters):Chapter 1: Cover
Chapter 2: Title Page
Chapter 3: Contents
Chapter 4: Dedication
Chapter 5: Epigraph
Chapter 6: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 7: HÖLDERLIN
Chapter 8: A SPLENDID COMPANY OF YOUTHS
Chapter 9: CHILDHOOD
Chapter 10: LIKENESS AS A STUDENT IN TÜBINGEN
Chapter 11: THE POET’S MISSION
Chapter 12: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POESY
Chapter 13: PHAETHON, OR ENTHUSIASM
Chapter 14: SETTING FORTH INTO THE WORLD
Chapter 15: A DANGEROUS ENCOUNTER
Chapter 16: DIOTIMA
Chapter 17: THE NIGHTINGALE SINGS IN THE DARK
Chapter 18: HYPERION
Chapter 19: THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES
Chapter 20: HÖLDERLIN’S POETRY
Chapter 21: FALL INTO THE INFINITE
Chapter 22: EMPURPLED OBSCURITY
Chapter 23: SCARDANELLI
Chapter 24: KLEIST
Chapter 25: THE HUNTED MAN
Chapter 26: LIKENESS OF THE UNPORTRAYABLE
Chapter 27: PATHOLOGY OF FEELING
Chapter 28: PLAN OF LIFE
Chapter 29: AMBITION
Chapter 30: THE URGE TO DRAMATIC WRITING
Chapter 31: WORLD AND TEMPERAMENT
Chapter 32: THE TELLER OF TALES
Chapter 33: LAST TIE
Chapter 34: A PASSION FOR DEATH
Chapter 35: THE MUSIC OF DESTRUCTION
Chapter 36: NIETZSCHE
Chapter 37: A ONE-MAN DRAMA
Chapter 38: TWOFOLD PORTRAIT
Chapter 39: APOLOGIA FOR ILLNESS
Chapter 40: THE DON JUAN OF THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD
Chapter 41: PASS ION FOR SINCERITY
Chapter 42: TRANSFORMATIONS IN SEARCH OF THE TRUE SELF
Chapter 43: DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH
Chapter 44: FLIGHT INTO MUSIC
Chapter 45: THE SEVENTH SOLITUDE
Chapter 46: DANCE OVER THE ABYSS
Chapter 47: THE TEACHER OF FREEDOM
Chapter 48: Also Available from Pushkin Press
Chapter 49: About the Publisher
Chapter 50: Copyright
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The only interest lies in seeing what passed for literary criticism in... 19th century--old-fashioned, rejected and surpassed already in Zweig's day. Vague, bombastic impressionistic descriptive twaddle about "Beauty", "Truth", "Damnation", "volcanic flames", "feverish winds", "sublime heights" etc. The best he can muster on the subject of Kant's philosophy is to say it is like "a block of ice". This idea-empty intoning and purple prosing becomes tiresome pretty quickly. It's shocking to remember that he was a contemporary of Benjamin's.
