Harmonia Abrahamica & the Lost Speech

My last posts have emphasized some of what I take to be Henry Corbin's contribution to our understanding of language and poetics. It may be useful to make available to those who have not read it the last chapter of my book Green Man, Earth Angel which addresses some of these issues in a way that seemed especially important to me at the time of its writing. This chapter, Harmonia Abrahamica: The Lost Speech and the Battle for the Soul of the World, has been excerpted a few times on this blog, but I make it available here in its (brief) entirety as a google document. The discussion includes some consideration of Heidegger and Paul Celan. The issues raised still seem to me of ultimate importance.

Paul Celan und seine Frau Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. Foto: suhrkamp verlag