On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy : A Guide for the Unruly / Gerald L. Bruns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruns, Gerald L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book takes seriously the transformation of art into philosophy, focusing upon the systematic interest that so many European philosophers take in modernism. Among the philosophers Gerald Bruns discusses are Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Emmanuel Levinas. As Bruns demonstrates, the difficulty of much modern and contemporary poetry can be summarized in the idea that a poem is made of words, not of any of the things that we use words to produce: meanings, concepts, propositions, narratives, or expressions of feeling. Many modernist poets have argued that in poetry language is no longer a form of mediation but a reality to be explored and experienced in its own right.

Contents:

Part 1 The Modernist Sublime

1 Modernisms - Literary and Otherwise: An Introduction 3

2 Ancients and Moderns: Gadamer's Aesthetic Theory and the Poetry of Paul Celan 33

Part 2 Forms of Paganism

3 Foucault's Modernism: Language, Poetry, and the Experience of Freedom 57

4 Poetic Communities 79

5 Francis Ponge on the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin 106

6 The Senses of Augustine: On Some of Lyotard's Remains 133

Part 3 Anarchist Poetics

7 Anarchic Temporality: Writing, Friendship, and the Ontology of the Work of Art in Maurice Blanchot's Poetics 155

8 The Concepts of Art and Poetry in Emmanuel Levinas's Writings 175.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100618

ISBN:

9780823226320

OCLC:

923763219

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access