Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 39, 2018

Philosophy and Literature

Gökçe Çataloluk
Pages 9-11

Trakl’s poietic Silence
A Quasi-systems Theoretical Dissection

Georg Trakl is known to be a poet that uses images of silence and one that uses as less words as possible when writing. This paper tries to examine whether it is possible to analyze this preference, following systems’ theory. For this, it examines the ways people communicate and communications bind to each other, the value of silence as negation and its anschlussfaehigkeit.