In the middle of the road there was Diotima
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Diotima, Plato, Hölderlin, love, beautyAbstract
The present exposition intends to resume the representation of Diotima in the poetic-philosophical discourse of Plato and Hölderlin. In despite of the time of the representation of the image of Diotima drew by each of the two authors, the idea it represents within the context of the works of the Greek philosopher and the German poet is marked by ambiguity. The architecture of Diotima, either of Plato’s or Hölderlin’s, is based upon the notion of otherness, a kind of mirror through the images of Sappho of Lesbos and Susette Gontard seem to merge in the figure of Plato’s and Hölderlin’s characters. In the characterization of the priestess/philosopher of Mantineia or in the Hördelin/Hiperion’s beloved one (source of inspiration of many of his poems) the allusion to the mediating element (daimon) is key. Through the fiction involving Diotima’s name both of authors speak about the love and the beautiful (visible in Plato’s case; human in Hölderlin’s) to support their theoretical arguments about love and beauty, mediated by the notions of need and desire, in a commonplace for both Plato and Hölderlin, the poetry and the philosophy.
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