The aim of The Poetics of Being is to inquire into how the
apperception of the Being of beings is produced. We will
recognize this production not primarily in philosophy, but in a
medium accessible to us all, theatre. Although the Romantic
tradition of literary criticism from Herder to Bloom has noted
that Shakespeare produces an exceptional sense of what is
[true], so much so that he is said to create the impression of
nature or life, no one has so far attempted to show how
precisely Shakespeare affects this experience. Contrary to T.
S. Eliot, who is unable to discern any kind of poetics in
Shakespeares plays, we have discovered an insistent and
consistent pattern of inadequation, a kind of mismatch. The
thesis argues, that the predominant tropes of inadequation are
falsity, dissimilarity, nothing, indefinition, elision and
substitution. We shall show that these figures of inadequation
are the universal means by which Shakespeare, almost
imperceptibly, compels the spectator to infer the apperception
of what is [true].
On the basis of these tropes of inadequation the thesis makes
the fundamental philosophical claim that the cognition of Being
through non-Being is a negative form of what Heidegger calls
the ontological difference. We call this the negative ontological
difference. The thesis demonstrates that with the exception of
some Pre-Socratic thinkers, Plato in the Sophist, the work of
Pseudo-Dionysius, and the writings of Derrida, the bulk of the
tradition of Western philosophy has argued Being in terms of
positivities. While the thesis does not question the possibility
of realizing the ontological difference in a positive fashion, as
does Heideggers philosophy of unconcealment, the thesis
claims that the negative ontological difference, or ontological
contradiction, is the more forceful process by which we
become aware of what is [true].
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/221651 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | MirahB@aol.com, Rolf Vaernes |
| Publisher | Murdoch University |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | http://www.murdoch.edu.au/goto/CopyrightNotice, Copyright Rolf Vaernes |
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