Philosophy and Poetry

Philosophy and Poetry

by Ranjan GhoshLutz Koepnick Cecilia Sjöholm and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/06/2019

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Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This 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.


In wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva, and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of philosophy.

ISBN:
9780231547246
9780231547246
Category:
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-06-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Lutz Koepnick

Lutz Koepnick is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University, USA, where he also chairs the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies and directs the Joint-Ph.D. Program in Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP). Koepnick has published widely on film, media art, new media aesthetic, sound art, and intellectual history from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. He is the author of The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous (2017), Michael Bay: World Cinema in the Age of Populism (2017), On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary (2014); Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture (2007); and The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood(2002). Koepnick is the co-author of Windows | Interface (2007), and co-editor of various anthologies on sound culture, new media aesthetics, aesthetic theory, German cinema, and questions of exile.

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