The Life and Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 -1926) with Distinguished Professor Dr. Rolf Goebel
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- Опубликовано: 17 янв 2024
- The Following video is a continuation of my Series on Classical German Philosophy, German Romanticism with an extra important video on German Modernist Poetry.
I sat down with the Distinguished Professor of German & Emeritus, Dr. Rolf Goebel from the University of Alabama in Huntsville to discuss The Life, Poetry, and Philosophy of Rainer Maria Rilke. Dr. Goebel was able to navigate us through Rilke's life with a detailed biography, followed by an in-depth understanding of Rilke's artistic influences, which included a discussion on Rodin and Cézanne and of course Hölderlin.
We discussed at length Rilke's reading of Hölderlin as a springboard for his own thinking on metaphors, such as the groundlessness of being, and the relationship between transcendence and immanence.
After reading Rilke's poem to Hölderlin we discussed Rilke's poetic imagery on the fundamental aspects of human existence such as: loneliness/love; happiness vs. joy; sadness and despair, these emotions and moods lead to an important disclosure to the sensitivities to poetic openness, the new, and the future; old things, buildings, gardens as repositories of a vanishing past; farness and nearness and the intermingling perceptions of death as a part of meaningful living.
We also discuss Heidegger's distinctive reading of Rilke
We end the video discussion on Rilke's exploration of music and auditory experience as a challenge to arts own visual predisposition and this discussion by reading Rilke's poem, "To Music."
(We do three thorough readings of Rilke's poems: “To Hölderlin”, the First Duino Elegy, and “To Music”?
If you are interested in Dr. Goebel's work you can find his articles and publications here: www.researchgate.net/profile/...
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Delighted to hear professor Goebel again, now on Rilke, after his previous insightful elucidation of Holderlin’s poetry and thinking (while tracing profound links to Heidegger!) Thanks so much for bringing this!
This is an exquisite conversation… beautifully guided by the host and a heartfelt exposition of Rilke from the professor. On a par with the Holderlin episode, both of which have been a huge inspiration to me and I will continue to rewatch in the coming months. Congratulations on a great episode and if it’s possible to get the professor to agree to more episodes, I’m sure many people will benefit from his great insight. I know I will. Many thanks.
Dear zeezi, I sent your message to Professor Goebel as it would mean very much to him that you have gained from this series on German Thinkers, Poets, and Artists; and from our two videos we have collaborated together on. Dr. Goebel will join me again in the spring to record a special episode on Walter Benjamin! All the best and thank you so much for all the support!
Thank you for your kind words! I'd indeed be very happy if we succeeded in conveying our passion for some of the many facets of Rilke, and I hope you'll continue reading him, not just the poetry that we touched upon, but also his fascinating depiction of modern city life and memory in his novel "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge", or his large correspondence in which he discusses philosophical topics of the greatest importance,
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many thanks for this brilliant dialogue
I've watched several of your videos and, as a once undergrad philosophy major, have enjoyed them enormously. Will you have sometime in the near future a video about Novalis? Out of all the German Romantics (early and late), Novalis entrances me. Not many books or videos on him (at least in English), but, as a Deep Ecologist, I find many elements in his writings akin to the human identification with Nature. Fascinating, but sad that he could not live a longer life.
Hi Jeffrey, it is really nice to hear this from you. I will be recording a video with Owen Ware who has been working on a new translations of Novalis's poetic works, but we will also speak about his philosophical fragments. Novalis is such an important thinker and I agree with you about his importance for an understanding of the relationship between Nature and the Human. I think Novalis was a head of his time. In Fichte Studies he presents one of the first systematic accounts of Metaphysical Pluralism. All the best.
@@TheYoungIdealistI look forward to this!
@@TheYoungIdealist so excited for this upcoming video! Novalis is very dear to my heart ♡
WONDERFUL LECTURE, THANK YOU FOR DR. ROLFJ AND FOR THE HOST
Thank you for watching our video and for your extremely kind comments. All the best!
The beautiful is something horrible that cannot be conceptualized. Jung talks about how as a child he had a horrible thought that he was trying to hold back because he knew it was immoral, without really acknowledging or thinking it. He finally prayed for the courage to accept the thought into full consciousness and then felt great relief when he did so. It was scatalogical and antireligious, naturally.
Thank you for watching our video! Your parallel between Rilke and Jung is interesting. One might add that for Rilke, at least in the First Duino Elegy, the horrible is not (only) a thought that is unacceptable to moral conscience, as it seems to be for Jung. Rather, Rilke believes that what we usually admire as something beautiful suddenly gives way to the horrible. This transition from the beautiful to the horrible is what one might call the sublime, because although we admire it, it is not concerned with our admiration, nor is it concerned with destroying us. It--the overlap of the beautiful and the horrible--is so disturbing because it is absolutely indifferent towards us; it doesn't care to be admired by us, nor does it want to destroy us. But it breaks up our sedimented, normal perception of the world and forces us to be totally open to the most unusual and new experiences, some of which Rilke explores in the Elegies to hitherto unknown depth. In this sense, the sublimely beautiful/horrible is a metaphysical category--beyond the psychological scope addressed in your reference to Jung. But thanks for thinking with Jung about and beyond Rilke!
so lovely! this is definitely one of my fav channels 🤍
Hi Hailey! I am so happy to hear that you are enjoying the content! It means a lot that my channel is reaching people. I try and answer each and every comment. I thank you for your kind comments!
Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich aus der Engel Ordnungen?
A memorable line by Rike, quoted in Whittaker Chambers’s Witness (beginning of chapter nine).
Rilke is stunning... Stephen Mitchell's translations are the best in English imo...
Indeed! Rilke is very difficult to translate, mostly due to his complex metaphors and rhythmic musicality, but Mitchell has done a very job finding equivalents in English; so have other translators.
@@RolfGoebel I did not find Rilke until I was 26 years old. I was browsing a poetry section in a book shop and I saw his name there on a few volumes. I took one down and opened it on " You who never arrived " ir was awesome...so terrible too... that thing which seems to forever elude us...like the eternal feminine drawing us on... And I at that time the broken hearted poet over a lost love.
But it is those turning lines of some stunning realisation that he uses so often... the archaic torso of Apollo...the statue it seemed to Rilke had more of a vital life force than himself...and then the " you must change your life "
Stephen Mitchell are there a book of selected works?
I cant believe the hatred here for his early work!! »Du bist die Zukunft, großes Morgenrot über den Ebenen der Ewigkeit« is some of his best work!!!
I think neither my interviewer nor myself expressed any "hatred" for Rilke's early work! Certainly, it contains some beautiful verses, and it is an important step in the poet's development. But what I tried to argue is that compared to his middle and late periods, the early works are often earnest but overly sentimental and full of metaphoric cliches. To his credit, Rilke himself was aware of this; hence his quite radical self-revisions as a poet!
@@RolfGoebel Describing it as "Kitsch" seems to convey low regards thereto; okay, perhaps "hatred" was hyperbolic on my part, granted - but seeing as 'kitsch' derives from the German 'kitschen' meaning: „to sweep up or scrape up mud from the street.", it is obviously derogatory, and you as a German speaker are aware of the etymology. Even the common usage in English is intended to devalue greatly whatever it describes. Calling it "overly sentimental" is fine, and indeed accurate. Kitsch, however, I would disagree with. I do respect your opinion though, and thoroughly enjoyed the lecture, so thank you.
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Another great excursion...
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Finally! (We met on X...i wrote as 'maqamibrahim'...but i am no more on X)
Hello! Wonderful to hear from you again! Thank you for your support! Wishing you the very best!
To the Eternal Gardens
Eternity.
An enchanted place,
aside from any kerfuffle,
where my words,
like petals
of the rose,
carried by the wind,
touch the depths
of your heart.
Igniting a flame,
brightening your soul,
a tear sliding over
the red of your cheeks,
thus moistening the eternal
depth most intimately.
A dew that surrounds
the ruggedness of my thorns,
knowing that they were the ones
who gave birth to the velvet
kerning of my words
smouldering with nostalgia.