Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350262485
ISBN-10: 135026248X
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 135026248X
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Collection of essays unsettling the separation between philosophy and poetry from a leading poet-philosopher
Notă biografică
John Koethe is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Cuprins
Introduction1. The Metaphysical Subject of John Ashbery's Poetry. 2. Contrary Impulses3. Poetry and the Experience of Experience4. The Romance of Realism5. Poetry at One Remove6. Thought and Poetry7. Styles of Temptation and Refusal in Wittgenstein and Stevens8. Wittgenstein and Lyric Subjectivity9. Comments on Susan Wolf's Meaning in Life and Why It Matters10. Poetry and Truth11. Poetry, Philosophy and the Syntax of Reflection12. On John Ashbery's "Clepsydra"13. Perplexity and Plausibility: On Philosophy, Lyrical and Discursive14. On Helen Veldler's Wallace Stevens15. The Microcosm: Poetry and Humanism16. On Wordsworth's Fun17. Philosophical Reflection on PoetryAppendix A: Metaphysics and the Mind-Body ProblemNotesBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
[Thought and Poetry] exalts poetry's place within the hierarchy of the mind's activities and adds one more reason why poetry ought to be taken seriously.
Beautifully lucid, John Koethe's Thought and Poetry examines poetry with the care of a trained philosopher and with the élan of one of our most rewarding poets. Here we find remarkable essays on Wordsworth, Eliot, Stevens, Moore and Bishop, and we also delight in the most insightful discussions of Ashbery ever written. But there is more: Koethe also takes us into the central issue of poetry and subjectivity and, perhaps above all, shows us how we might think of poets as philosophically interesting without expecting them to do philosophy in their poems. The task, rather, is to see the best of modern poetry as at heart reflective or contemplative.
We humans are subjects. Each of us is out to sustain and consolidate a thin, diaphanous point of view that springs up within and asserts itself over and against an objective world composed for the most part of thicker, sterner stuff. The meditative lyric tradition of Wordsworth, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, and Ashbery ponders this predicament in one way. A core tradition in philosophy of mind and action, the tradition of Descartes, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, and Nagel, does so in another - equally speculative, equally inconclusive, no more abstract. The philosopher thinks in words chosen to constitute a reasoned response to the thoughts of her predecessors. The poet thinks in words chosen out of desire. John Koethe is one of my generation's finest philosophers and one of its most wonderful poets. These two vocations have contrived to take turns in John's working life. He's never courted crossover appeal by trying to philosophize as a poet or write poetry as a philosopher. Yet in these occasional pieces written over the years, some of them critical, some philosophical, poetry and philosophy reckon with each other's existence more fully than ever before.
This is a terrific collection. Koethe, drawing on his identities as poet and philosopher, treats poetry and philosophy as speculative activities that share many concerns, but that also deeply diverge in their constraints and aspirations. He has a wonderful gift for exploring temptations and oscillations of thinking, ideas we care about and may be compelled to inhabit, and desires and temperaments at work in both philosophical and poetic projects. While this is not in any sense a dogmatic collection - the essays are in a searching, almost conversational register, Koethe does not shy away from staking out provocative commitments and critical judgements that show an enviable intellectual and creative reach. His own speculative thinking is alive and well in these essays.
A philosophically deep treatment of the relations between poetry and philosophy. Especially illuminating, even edifying, in its treatment of philosophically sensitive "meditative poetry." The meditative poet does not aim to contribute to the resolution of the big issues. Instead he inhabits the philosophic dialectic, displaying the ebb and flow of thought, this to contribute to our understanding of what it is to be human.
Beautifully lucid, John Koethe's Thought and Poetry examines poetry with the care of a trained philosopher and with the élan of one of our most rewarding poets. Here we find remarkable essays on Wordsworth, Eliot, Stevens, Moore and Bishop, and we also delight in the most insightful discussions of Ashbery ever written. But there is more: Koethe also takes us into the central issue of poetry and subjectivity and, perhaps above all, shows us how we might think of poets as philosophically interesting without expecting them to do philosophy in their poems. The task, rather, is to see the best of modern poetry as at heart reflective or contemplative.
We humans are subjects. Each of us is out to sustain and consolidate a thin, diaphanous point of view that springs up within and asserts itself over and against an objective world composed for the most part of thicker, sterner stuff. The meditative lyric tradition of Wordsworth, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, and Ashbery ponders this predicament in one way. A core tradition in philosophy of mind and action, the tradition of Descartes, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein, and Nagel, does so in another - equally speculative, equally inconclusive, no more abstract. The philosopher thinks in words chosen to constitute a reasoned response to the thoughts of her predecessors. The poet thinks in words chosen out of desire. John Koethe is one of my generation's finest philosophers and one of its most wonderful poets. These two vocations have contrived to take turns in John's working life. He's never courted crossover appeal by trying to philosophize as a poet or write poetry as a philosopher. Yet in these occasional pieces written over the years, some of them critical, some philosophical, poetry and philosophy reckon with each other's existence more fully than ever before.
This is a terrific collection. Koethe, drawing on his identities as poet and philosopher, treats poetry and philosophy as speculative activities that share many concerns, but that also deeply diverge in their constraints and aspirations. He has a wonderful gift for exploring temptations and oscillations of thinking, ideas we care about and may be compelled to inhabit, and desires and temperaments at work in both philosophical and poetic projects. While this is not in any sense a dogmatic collection - the essays are in a searching, almost conversational register, Koethe does not shy away from staking out provocative commitments and critical judgements that show an enviable intellectual and creative reach. His own speculative thinking is alive and well in these essays.
A philosophically deep treatment of the relations between poetry and philosophy. Especially illuminating, even edifying, in its treatment of philosophically sensitive "meditative poetry." The meditative poet does not aim to contribute to the resolution of the big issues. Instead he inhabits the philosophic dialectic, displaying the ebb and flow of thought, this to contribute to our understanding of what it is to be human.