Genealogie des Unendlichen – Leopardis Ergründung einer ‚poesia senza nome‘ Beitrag Giulia Agostini Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 67 (2018), Ausgabe 4, Seite 377 - 394 As a skeptical thinker, Leopardi is perfectly aware of the necessary contingency and groundlessness of all things. Yet it is precisely this awareness that implies the insistent questioning of a founding ground with which his work is imbued. This can be seen in the genetic-ancestral metaphors at the core of his thinking about the ‚infinite‘ thus considered as the ‚daughter of our imagination‘. Strikingly, this filiation leads to another family resemblance, namely the implicit twinship of poetry and philosophy, both of which ideally merge in Leopardi’s conception of a ‚genuinely poetic thought‘. In turn, the Leopardian idea of a particular poetic thought originates in his own early project of a ‚new nameless poetry‘, which is itself in search for its own ‚origin‘: the ‚absolute ground of nothingness‘, generating it in the first place and constantly accompanying it. Like this ‚inexistent‘, and thus truly ‚infinite non-ground‘, or ‚background‘, the ‚genealogy‘ of such a ‚nameless poetr‘y is a paradox yet to be elucidated.
Herméneutique de la contingence – Mallarmé et Gadamer Beitrag Giulia Agostini Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, Jahrgang 65 (2015), Ausgabe 3, Seite 317 - 333 Mallarmé’s poetic thought is haunted by the hermeneutic question of understanding as well as the epistemological questions of contingency, necessity and chance. This is not surprising if one takes into account that he has since the beginning been blamed for his supposedly obscure poetry. It is striking, though, that his theory of reading and writing, which he defines both as practices, seems to point to certain decisive moments in Gadamer’s philosophical thought. And even if Gadamer rarely refers to Mallarmé ex plicitly in his writings, the poetry and poetic thinking of the latter seem to be of the highest importance for the development of his own philosophical hermeneutics in ‘Truth and Method’ and some later texts. This becomes particularly evident if one compares his concept of the work of art and his philosophy of language with the Mallarméan thought of the mirror of poetry.
„Village Property“, kulturelle Hybridität und Grenzen literarischer Übersetzung: Toni Morrisons ‚Tar Baby‘ Marion Kraft
