Solitudes: From Rimbaud to Heidegger
Jul 1995 ยท State University of New York Press
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~ 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.
~ 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.
About the author
Marc Froment-Meurice has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, and at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Les Intermittences de la raison; La chose meme; and Tombeau de Trakl, among other works.
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