| Solitudes: From Rimbaud to Heidegger Contributor(s): Froment-Meurice, Marc (Author) |
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ISBN: 079142524X ISBN-13: 9780791425244 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1995 Annotation: This work is impressive for its erudition, and the author brilliantly illuminates the history of the myriad philosophical question he raises. His familiarity with the history of Western philosophy is matched by an intimate knowledge of the writings of the poets. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 94-49400 |
| Series: Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.02" W x 9.01" (0.80 lbs) 239 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is the age of poets past, or are we just on the verge of its coming in a farewell to poetry? When Rimbaud claims: One must be absolutely modern! what does he ask for? Is modernity really already finished, before it has even fully arrived? Is this the paradox of our present time? What if, as Mallarme said, a present does not exist? Is there any place for what Heidegger called building, dwelling, thinking? Why did Heidegger himself in the end need an ultimate God, after the failure of his political expectations? To keep questioning is already a way of responding. Perhaps the traditional philosophical gesture is not sufficient. If language, culture, and the history of the West have come to the point of no return as shown by Auschwitz, everything has to be rethought-- without a turn or a return. |