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Philosophers and Their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant

Philosophers and Their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy since Kant

Bambach, Charles
George, Theodore

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1438477023
ISBN13: 9781438477022
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 1 2020
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Examines the role that poets and the poetic word play in the formation of philosophical thinking in the modern German tradition.

Several of the most celebrated philosophers in the German tradition since Kant afford to poetry an all-but-unprecedented status in Western thought. Fichte, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Gadamer argue that the scope, limits, and possibilities of philosophy are intimately intertwined with those of poetry. For them, poetic thinking itself is understood as intrinsic to the kind of thinking that defines philosophical inquiry and the philosophical life, and they developed their views through extensive and sustained considerations of specific poets, as well as specific poetic figures and images. This book offers essays by leading scholars that address each of the major figures of this tradition and the respective poets they engage, including Schiller, Archilochus, Pindar, Hölderlin, Eliot, and Celan, while also discussing the poets' contemporary relevance to philosophy in the continental tradition.

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