Philosophy and poetry : continental perspectives / edited by Ranjan Ghosh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The agonizing agon: meditations on a conjugality / Ranjan Ghosh -- As the world turns: Heidegger and the origin of poetry / Georges Van Den Abbeele -- Benjamin's Baudelaire / Lutz Koepnick -- Georges Bataille and the hatred of poetry / Roland Végsö -- Voicing thought: Arendt, poetry, and philosophy / Cecilia Sjöholm -- Language and the poetic word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics / James Risser -- "I am a poem, not a poet": Jacques Kacan's philosophy of poetry / Jean Michel Rabaté -- Adorno: poetry after poetry / Thomas H. Ford -- Sartre and poetry: je t'aime, moi non plus (I love you--me neither) / Francois Noudelmann -- Levinas and the poetical turn of being / Raoul Moati -- The intoxicated conversation: Maurice Blanchot and the poetics of critical masks / Daniel Rosenberg Nutters and Daniel T. O'Hara -- Merleau-Ponty, Ponge, and Valéry on speaking things: phenomenology and poetry / Galen Johnson -- Deleuze and poetry / Claire Colebrook -- Irigaray's breath, or poetry after poetics / Anne Emmanuelle Berger -- On the persistence of hedgehogs / Leslie Hill -- What are philosophers for in the age of the poets? Badiou with and against Heidegger / Bruno Bosteels -- Jean-Luc Nancy: poetry, philosophy, technicity / Ian James -- Rancière on poetry / Jean-Phillippe Deranty -- Desire against discipline: Kristeva's theory of poetry / Carol M. Bové -- Agamben and poetry / Justin Clemens.

"Philosophy or Poetry?: A Continental Perspective is an exciting and innovative contribution to continental philosophy, aesthetics, and comparative literature that will have broad interest and appeal. The unique spirit with which major thinkers in the contemporary continental tradition engage with the challenge of poetry (and perhaps the arts in general) to questions both political and personal is conveyed in these essays commissioned from specialists and major thinkers in their own right--Georges Van Den Abbeele, Lutz Koepnick, Jean Michel Rabate, Francois Noudelmann, Claire Colebrook, Jean Philippe Deranty, and Bruno Bosteels, among others"-- Provided by publisher.