The Life and Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 -1926) with Distinguished Professor Dr. Rolf Goebel

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@zeezi2009 11 ай бұрын

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.

@TheYoungIdealist 11 ай бұрын

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!

@RolfGoebel 11 ай бұрын

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,

@lenorefoxmoor9985 11 ай бұрын

@@RolfGoebel❤👏

@amelmahmoud8221 10 ай бұрын

WONDERFUL LECTURE, THANK YOU FOR DR. ROLFJ AND FOR THE HOST

@TheYoungIdealist 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching our video and for your extremely kind comments. All the best!

@peternoble7236 11 ай бұрын

many thanks for this brilliant dialogue

@filipsmit5497 8 ай бұрын

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!

@jeffreykramer6508 11 ай бұрын

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.

@TheYoungIdealist 11 ай бұрын

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.

@shari6063 11 ай бұрын

@@TheYoungIdealistI look forward to this!

@haileyuki5129 11 ай бұрын

@@TheYoungIdealist so excited for this upcoming video! Novalis is very dear to my heart ♡

@dpd420 11 ай бұрын

This channel is a gem!

@RolfGoebel 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment!

@haileyuki5129 11 ай бұрын

so lovely! this is definitely one of my fav channels 🤍

@TheYoungIdealist 11 ай бұрын

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!

@johnstewart7025 11 ай бұрын

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.

@RolfGoebel 11 ай бұрын

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!

@karimmitri2608 7 ай бұрын

This is quickly becoming my favourite channel on youtube

@sarahgorsline1340 4 ай бұрын

wonderful

@BrentAnderson-lb2sm 10 ай бұрын

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).

@johnmcgrath1929 11 ай бұрын

Rilke is stunning... Stephen Mitchell's translations are the best in English imo...

@RolfGoebel 11 ай бұрын

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.

@johnmcgrath1929 11 ай бұрын

@@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 "

@valentinekizito661 9 ай бұрын

Stephen Mitchell are there a book of selected works?

@thomassimmons1950 11 ай бұрын

Another great excursion...

@RolfGoebel 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@thomassimmons1950 11 ай бұрын

@@RolfGoebel Cheers!

@RolfGoebel 6 ай бұрын

@@thomassimmons1950 Thank you!

@sterlingweston 7 ай бұрын

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!!!

@RolfGoebel 6 ай бұрын

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!

@sterlingweston 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@philipvalentini3112 11 ай бұрын

Finally! (We met on X...i wrote as 'maqamibrahim'...but i am no more on X)

@TheYoungIdealist 11 ай бұрын

Hello! Wonderful to hear from you again! Thank you for your support! Wishing you the very best!

@uebermodean 11 ай бұрын

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.