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

By Alain Badiou , Emily Apter , Bruno Bosteels

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2014
ISBN
178168569X, 9781781685693
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11501791 bytes)
Pages
252\251
Time added
2015-09-02 08:48:49
Criticism Theory History Literature Fiction Poetry

Description

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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