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The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose

Paperback • 2014 • English

The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose

By Alain Badiou

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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 Aestheti...Show more

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9781781685693

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose

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Paperback

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