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Book SynopsisThis book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry.
Trade Review[A] remarkable anthology. * Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics *
This indispensable gathering of essays by some of the most compelling critics and philosophers writing today provides a comprehensive and decisive investigation of European philosophy’s engagement with its ancient and enduring adversary. These studies are admirable for the clarity and attention to detail that they bring to often difficult texts. As a result, one begins to understand in new ways the ancient paradox that without poetry philosophy would be unable to recognize itself, and in the bargain philosophy becomes for poetry an indispensable
poetics of words and things of the world. -- Gerald L. Bruns, author of
Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern LiteratureThis very exciting collection offers admirably concise and often brilliant essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophers and their relationship to, reliance on, commentaries about poetry. Any student of European thinking, especially of those central strains of the 'continental tradition' that take their origin in phenomenology, will learn a great deal not only from the specific essays in this collection but also from the interplay between them. -- John Michael, author of
Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonRecommended. * Choice *
Table of Contents1. The Agonizing Agon: Meditations on a Conjugality, by Ranjan Ghosh
2. As the World Turns: Heidegger and the Origin of Poetry, by Georges Van Den Abbeele
3. Benjamin’s Baudelaire, by Lutz Koepnick
4. Georges Bataille and the Hatred of Poetry, by Roland Végső
5. Voicing Thought: Arendt, Poetry, and Philosophy, by Cecilia Sjöholm
6. Language and the Poetic Word in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics, by James Risser
7. “I Am a Poem, Not a Poet”: Jacques Lacan’s Philosophy of Poetry, by Jean- Michel Rabaté
8. Adorno: Poetry After Poetry, by Thomas H. Ford
9. Sartre and Poetry:
Je t’aime, moi non plus (I Love You—Me Neither), by Francois Noudelmann
10. Levinas and the Poetical Turn of Being, by Raoul Moati
11. The Intoxicated Conversation: Maurice Blanchot and the Poetics of Critical Masks, by Daniel Rosenberg Nutters and Daniel T. O’Hara
12. Merleau- Ponty, Ponge, and Valéry on Speaking Things: Phenomenology and Poetry, by Galen Johnson
13. Deleuze and Poetry, by Claire Colebrook
14. Irigaray’s Breath, or Poetry After Poetics, by Anne Emmanuelle Berger
15. On the Persistence of Hedgehogs, by Leslie Hill
16. What Are Philosophers For in the Age of the Poets? Badiou with and Against Heidegger, by Bruno Bosteels
17. Jean- Luc Nancy: Poetry, Philosophy, Technicity, by Ian James
18. Rancière on Poetry, by Jean- Philippe Deranty
19. Desire Against Discipline: Kristeva’s Theory of Poetry, by Carol Mastrangelo Bové
20. Agamben and Poetry, by Justin Clemens
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