The age of the poets : and other writings on twentieth-century poetry and prose / Alain Badiou ; edited and translated by Bruno Bosteels ; with an introduction by Emily Apter and Bruno Bosteels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badiou, Alain, author.

Contributor:

Bosteels, Bruno, editor, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 215 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2014.

Summary:

"In this collection of essays, Alain Badiou revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the "age of the poets," from Holderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, "The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process," Badiou also offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I On Poetry

1 The Age of the Poets 3

2 What Does the Poem Think? 23

3 The Philosophical Status of the Poem after Heidegger 36

4 Philosophy and Poetry from the Vantage Point of the Unnameable 44

5 One Must Descend into Love: On the Poetry of Henry Bauchau 59

6 The Unfolding of the Desert 69

7 Drawing: On Wallace Stevens 75

8 Destruction, Negation, Subtraction: On Pier Paolo Pasolini 83

9 Poetry and Communism 93

II On Prose

10 The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process 111

11 What Does Literature Think? 132

12 A Requiem for the Factory: On François Bon's Sortie d'usine 140

13 On the Prose of Natacha Michel 147

14 Void, Series, Clearing: Essay on the Prose of Severo Sarduv 183

15 Pierre Guyotat, Prince of Prose 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781685693

178168569X

9781781685709

1781685703

OCLC:

870663608

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