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Subject(s)

• Poetry [Browse]
• Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976—Knowledge—Poetry [Browse]
• Poetry, Modern—History and criticism [Browse]
• Transcendence (Philosophy) [Browse]
• Poetry—Religious aspects [Browse]
• Celan, Paul—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Murray, Les A. 1938-2019—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Heaney, Seamus 1939-2013—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 43. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 43 [More in this series]

Summary note

"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 most profound and 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Note on Translations
• Introduction: Poetry, philosophy, and modernity: Germany and beyond
• Chapter One: Clearings: Finitude, historicity, and the space of poetry
• Chapter Two: Straitenings: Paul Celan and world disclosure
• Chapter Three: Lightenings: The shades of redress
• Chapter Four: Earthings: Enlightenment, religion, and the poem of modernity.

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ISBN

• 9780367894276 (hardcover)
• 0367894270 (hardcover)

LCCN

2019051569

OCLC

1130319113

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