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

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The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose - Badiou, Alain, and Apter, Emily (Translated by), and Bosteels, Bruno (Translated by)
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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 Aesthetic Process," Badiou also ...

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The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose 2014, Verso, London

ISBN-13: 9781781685693

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The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose 2014, Verso, London

ISBN-13: 9781781685709

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