A Red Rose in the Dark (Web PDF) von Dorit Lemberger

Chapter One

Poetic Grammar: Three Aspects of Aesthetic Judgment

1. Examination and Judgment of Aesthetic Language: The Fundamental Tension

2. The First Aspect: A Poetic Work as Driving Reflective Introspection

3. The Second Aspect: Conscious Change as the Key to Aesthetic Judgment

4. The Third Aspect: Showing What Cannot Be Said

Summation

Chapter Two

Dialogical Grammar: Variations of Dialogue in Wittgenstein’s Methodology as Ways of Self-Constitution

1. “Family Resemblance” between the Platonic Dialogue and Wittgenstein’s Methodology

1.1. Wittgenstein’s Critique of Socrates

1.2. Similarities between Wittgensteinian and Socratic Dialogue

1.3. Language as a Medium of Thought: Soliloquy as Ordinary Language

1.4. Reflective Dialogue: Dialogue between Sense-Perception and Image

2. Wittgensteinian Dialogical Grammar in the Philosophical Investigations: Rhetorical, Conversational, Reflective

2.1. Dialogism in the Philosophical Investigations: “A Surveyable Representation”

2.2. Aspects of Dialogism

2.3. Dialogue as Technique

2.4. Conversational Dialogue

2.5. Reflective Dialogue

Chapter Three

Self-Constitution through Mystical Grammar: The Urge and Its Expressions

Three Channels of Mystical Grammar

1. Preliminary Considerations: Theology as Grammar and the Metaphysical Subject

2. The Mystical-Religious Channel: The Religious Aspect of Mystical Grammar

3. Who Is Experiencing? The Paradox of the I and the “Solution” of the Mystic Subject

4. I as Object—I as Subject: From James to Wittgenstein

5. From Perfectionism to Confession: Work on Oneself

Chapter Four

Zelda: The Complex Self-Constitution of the Believer

1. Expression and Conversion between Everyday and Poetic Grammar

2. Dialogic Grammar: Internal and External Observations

3. Mystical Grammar: Perfectionism and Metaphysics as Zelda’s Varieties of Religious Experience

Chapter Five

Yehuda Amichai: Amen and Love

1. The Poetics of Change: The Grammaticalization of Experience

2. Dialogic Grammar: The Importance of Otherness

3. Reconstruction of the Subject: The Mystical Grammar of Open Closed Open

3.1. The Mechanism of Change as the Key to Perfectionism

3.2. The Conception of an Individual God: God as Change and as Interlocutor

3.3. The Encounter with Biblical Word-Games as the Key to the Reconstruction of the Self

3.4. The Refashioning of Religious Rituals as an Expression of Intersubjective Change of the Self

Chapter Six

Admiel Kosman: We Reached God

The Popping Self

1. The Poetic Grammar of Revolution: The New Believer

1.1. How to Do Things with Words: The Weekly Torah Portion

1.2. When All the Words Are Finished—All Is Intoxicated from Clarity

2. Dialogical Grammar: Self-Constitution as Conversational Process

3. Mystical Grammar: Private Pain and Manifestation of the Other

Chapter Seven

Shimon Adaf: Poetry as Philosophy and Philosophy as Poetry

The Nobility of Pain

1. Icarus Monologue: The Poetic Grammar of Hybrid Imagination

2. What I Thought Shadow Is the Real Body: The Dialogical Grammar of Place, Time, and Memory

2.1. Poetry as a Chronological and Thematic Point of Departure

2.2. The Subject as the Limit of the World

3. Aviva-No: The Grammar of Mourning

4. The Way Music Speaks

Summation: “As if I Could Read the Darkness”

Index