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Arkady, who is of Russian origin, probably knows Dostoevsky’s Brothers and his Markel. He certainly knows Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, at least the most celebrated of these, the third of the first part containing the sentence ‘Song is existence’, Gesang ist Dasein. How close to what Rilke means by this do Arkady and his interlocutor come in the following exchange?
nous voilà à chargés de la transmutation, de la résurrection, de la transfiguration de toutes choses.
Rainer Maria Rilke, letter to Sophy Giauque, 26 November 1925
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See also John Llewelyn, ‘On the saying that philosophy begins in thaumazein, in Andrew Benjamin (ed.) Post-Structuralist Classics (London and New York: Routledge, 1988) pp. 173–91.
Michel Haar, Le chant de la terre: Heidegger et les assises de l’histoire de l’être (Paris: L’Herne, 1985) pp. 242ff.
David Farrell Krell, ‘Daimon Life, Nearness and Abyss: An Introduction to Za-ology’, Research in Phenomenology, XVII (1987) pp. 23–53.
Maurice Blanchot, L’espace littéraire (Paris: Gallimard, 1955) p. 182ff.
Paul de Man, ‘Tropes (Rilke)’ in Allegories of Reading (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979) pp. 20–56.
Hermann Kunisch, Rainer Maria Rilke: Dasein und Dichtung (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1975) p. 36.
Jean Wahl, Existence humaine et transcendance (Neuchâtel: Éditions de la Baconnière, 1944) p. 38.
Jacques Derrida, De l’esprit: Heidegger et la question (Paris: Galilée, 1987) p. 89
Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Works, trans. G. Craig Houston (London: Hogarth, 1954) vol. I, p. 39.
David Farrell Krell, ‘Spiriting Heidegger’, in Research in Phenomenology, XVIII (1988), pp. 205–30.
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Llewelyn, J. (1991). The Responsibility of Saving the World Through Song. In: The Middle Voice of Ecological Conscience. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21624-6_7
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