Poetry as philosophy - on Wallace Stevens

Simon Critchley

doi:10.1386/ejac.24.3.179/1

ISSN: 1466-0407
E-ISSN: 1758-9118

Poetry as philosophy - on Wallace Stevens
By Simon Critchley¹
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¹ University of Essex.
Source: European Journal of American Culture, Volume 24, Issue 3, Dec 2005, p. 179 - 190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.24.3.179/1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Dec 2005

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In this essay, I defend the philosophical significance of the poetry of Wallace Stevens and try to show how it can help in returning us to that which is normally passed over in epistemological discussions: the phenomenon of the world.

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Keyword(s): epistemology; phenomenology; philosophy; poetry; Romanticism; Wallace Stevens

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