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Poetry and the Question of Modernity - From Heidegger to the Present (Paperback)
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Poetry and the Question of Modernity - From Heidegger to the Present (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Interest in Martin Heidegger was recently reawakened by the
revelations, in his newly published 'Black Notebooks', of the full
terrible extent of his political commitments in the 1930s and
1940s. The revelations reminded us of the dark allegiances
co-existing with one of the profoundest and most important
philosophical projects of the twentieth century-one that is of
incomparable importance for literature and especially for poetry,
which Heidegger saw as embodying a receptiveness to Being and a
resistance to the instrumental tendencies of modernity. Poetry and
the Question of Modernity: From Heidegger to the Present is the
first extended account of the relationship between Heidegger's
philosophy and the modern lyric. It argues that some of the
best-known modern poets in German and English, from Paul Celan to
Seamus Heaney and Les Murray, are in deep imaginative affinity with
Heidegger's enquiry into finitude, language, and Being. But the
work of each of these poets challenges Heidegger because each
appeals to a transcendence, taking place in language, that is
inseparable from the motion of encounter with embodied others. It
is thus poetry which reveals the full measure of Heidegger's
relevance in redefining modern selfhood, and poetry which reveals
the depth of his blindness.
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