On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy - A Guide for the Unruly

Marcel Duchamp once asked whether it is possible to make something that is not a work of art. This question returns over and over in modernist culture, where there are no longer any authoritative criteria for what can be identified (or excluded) as a work of art. As William Carlos Williams says, ?A poem can be made of anything, ? even newspaper clippings. In this provocative study, Bruns answers that the culture of modernism is a kind of anarchist community, where the work of art is apt to be as much an event or experience?or, indeed, an alternative form of life?as a formal object. In modern writing, philosophy and poetry fold into one another. In this book, Bruns helps us to see how

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Gerald L. Bruns

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Focuses upon the systematic interest that so many European philosophers take in modernism. In this study, the author answers that the culture of modernism is a kind of anarchist community, where the work of art is apt to be as much an event or experience - or, indeed, an alternative form of life - as a formal object.

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• Autori: Gerald L. Bruns, BRUNS GERALD L
• Editore: Fordham University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780823226320
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-2632-0
• Pagine: 274
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy; Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Ph; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata