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DER KOBOLD DER EROTISCHEN IRONIE – PLATON‐LEKTÜREN MIT THOMAS MANN
Author(s) -
Mayer Mathias
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
german life and letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1468-0483
pISSN - 0016-8777
DOI - 10.1111/glal.12285
Subject(s) - philosophy , irony , passion , art history , psychoanalysis , literature , art , psychology , linguistics , psychotherapist
Thomas Mann offers us a number of perspectives on Plato that so far have never been adequately described. For Mann, the artist seems to be a ʻplatonic natureʼ– not in the sense of asexual love, but as a constellation of creativity and homosexuality. Mann uses the key concept of ʻerotic ironyʼ as a kind of formula determined by Plato's philosophy of love as set out in the Symposium and Phaedrus . He was familiar with these works in the translations by Rudolf Kassner – and this means, in turn, that Mannʼs essay on Schopenhauer must also be seen in a new light.