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Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy: Metaphysics and the Play of Violence

by Daniel Tompsett

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens' poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period, assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressively taken on the existential burden of our post-theological age. Tompsett argues that Stevens' poetry attempts to 'play' its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his 'reduction of metaphysics' is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of the language and form of Stevens' poems, Tompsett uncovers the mythology his poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a 'reduction of metaphysics.'
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  • Author

    Daniel Tompsett

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    June 2012

  • Weight

    500g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780415507585

  • ISBN-10

    0415507588

  • Eden Code

    4730346

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