Cartesian Poetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cartesian Poetics write by Andrea Gadberry. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Cartesian Poetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought’s frustrations. Gadberry’s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.
Descartes' Nightmare
Descartes' Nightmare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes' Nightmare write by Susan McCabe. This book was released on 2008. Descartes' Nightmare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 2007 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry recipient selected by judge Cole Swenson of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience
Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience write by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge. This book was released on 2022-09-22. Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contributes to the fields of lyric poetry and poetics (especially poetic form), aesthetics, and German literature by intervening in debates on the social functions, cognitive and emotional effects, and the value of poetry. It builds on, and moves beyond, previous theories of rhythm to tie meter more particularly to the specificities of poetic language in blending of embodied responses, cultural situations, and linguistic particularities. The book examines the German-language tradition across three centuries, arguing that the interdisciplinarity and richness of metrical theory and practice emerge in the heterogeneity of poetry and its defenders in their specific historical moments. Focusing on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Durs Grünbein, the book contextualizes each in the metrical and aesthetic debates of his epoch, showing how questions of meter are linked with overarching poetic goals such as the relationship between form and meaning, the adaptation of the Classical past for German literature, and the ways poetry's sounds work in the body. It argues that Klopstock's, Nietzsche's, and Grünbein's metrical theory and practice offer valuable insights for thinking about the ways poetry works and why it matters.
Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics
Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics write by Aaron Brice Cummings. This book was released on 2024-10-15. Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire, an exchange preempted by the untimely deaths of two of the interlocutors during the Nazi holocaust. Why did three of Europe’s sharpest minds respond to the terror of 1933-45 by writing about a long-dead poet? Aaron Brice Cummings argues that Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre turned to the poet of nihilism’s abyss because they recognized a fact of cultural history that remains relevant today: until sometime in the 2080s, the literary world will have to confront (even if to deny) the two-century window forecast by Nietzsche as the age of cultural and existential nihilism. Accordingly, the author examines the bitter metaphysics latent in Baudelaire’s motifs of the abyss, clocks, brutes, streets, and bored dandies. In so doing, this book confronts the nothingness which modern life encounters in the heart of art, ethics, ideality, time, memory, history, urban life, and religion.
Poetic Knowledge
Poetic Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetic Knowledge write by James S. Taylor. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Poetic Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the neglected mode of knowing and learning, from Socrates to the middle ages and beyond, that relies more on the integrated powers of sensory experience and intuition, rather than on modern narrow scientific models of education.
