The Age of the Poets : And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose
by
Alain Badiou
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
178168569X
ISBN-13
9781781685693
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 4th, 2014
Print length
252 Pages
Weight
282 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.10 x 1.70 cms
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New and illuminating set of analyses of literature from one of France's most important living philosophers
The Age of the Poets 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,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.
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