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The Extravagant - Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy (Hardcover, New)
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The Extravagant - Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy (Hardcover, New)
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In The Extravagant Robert Baker explores the interplay between
poetry and philosophy in the modern period, engaging a broad range
of writers: Kant, Wordsworth, and Lyotard in a chapter on the
sublime; Rimbaud, Nietzsche, and Bataille in a chapter on visionary
quest; and Kierkegaard, Dickinson, Mallarme, and Derrida in a
chapter on apocalyptic negativity. His guiding concern is to
illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language
that, from the romantic period on, both poets and philosophers have
undertaken in opposition to the dominant social and discursive
frames of a pervasively instrumentalized world. The larger
interpretative narrative shaping the book is that a dialectic of
instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work
throughout modern culture. Baker argues that adventures of
exploratory wandering emerge in the romantic period as displaced
articulations of older religious discourses. Given the dominant
trends of the modern world, however, these adventures repeatedly
lead to severe collisions and crises, in response to which they are
later revised or further displaced. Over time, as instrumental
structures come to disfigure every realm of modern life, poetries
and philosophies at odds with these structures are forced to
criticize and surpass earlier voices in their traditions that seem
to have lost a transformative power. Thus, Baker argues, these
adventures gradually unfold into various discourses of the negative
prominent in contemporary culture: discourses of decentering,
dispersing, undoing, and erring. It is this dialectic that Baker
traces and interprets in this ambitious study.
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