{"product_id":"the-extravagant-9780268021825","title":"The Extravagant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period, engaging a broad range of writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . Baker sees modernity as a dialectical struggle between increasingly organized instrumental societies and constructive, energetic, and creative negativity.\" —\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . Baker is surely right to see a kind of displaced religious longing behind many of these writers. . . Scholars looking for common themes uniting Romanticism and now-fading postmodernity will find a support here. . . \" —\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Extravagant\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and ambitious study of the interplay between philosophy and poetry in the modern period.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . \u003ci\u003eThe Extravagant\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging book that will have many admirers among the ever-widening circle of 'religionists without religion.' It makes a good case for the continuity of romantic and modernist poetics despite the clear break between expressivism and constructivism in twentieth-century theory and practice.\" —\u003ci\u003eChristianity and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“ . . . his richly erudite, lucidly intelligent, and beautifully written book is indispensable for anyone who wants to understand and reflect on the trajectory of modern culture.” —\u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Baker locates the origin of this 'extravagant' wandering not in the Homeric plot of return to a lost household, but rather in the Biblical theme of 'crossing' over or through to a new heaven or a new earth, and in the desire to make all things new . . . Baker further argues that the major 20th-century philosophers in the Continental tradition have been inspired by these 'extravagant' poets; as a result there has been a remarkable 'interanimation' between poetry and philosophy in our time.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Heythrop Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In conclusion, and in good extravagant fashion, I'll say this: Baker's book is absolutely fascinating, interesting, and compelling, in spite of its forcing the reader to wander almost to exhaustion-but then such is the nature of both the extravagant and the negative.” —\u003ci\u003eHyperion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Robert Baker's \u003ci\u003eThe Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e deals boldly and brilliantly with its titular subjects as ways of exploring perhaps arbitrating lofty, even ultimate issues. . . . This structure is intriguing, but even more impressive is Baker's command of his voluminous and difficult subject matter.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Baker’s great strengths—apart from the scale and urgency of his wonderfully conceived topic—are his prodigious learning, his luminous intelligence, and his probing diagnostic vision. He has a truly remarkable capacity to move scrupulously and profoundly between poetry and philosophical thought.” —Peter Sacks, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is an outstanding book about the inter-relations between poetry and philosophy. It's splendidly written, impressively argued and genuinely original. I read it with great admiration.\" —Mark W. Edmundson, University of Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400723865943,"sku":"9780268021825","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780268021825.jpg?v=1730471396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-extravagant-9780268021825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}