The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry

Explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence.

Auteur

Raymond Barfield is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of The Ancient Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy (2011), Life in the Blind Spot (2012), and a novel called The Book of Colors (2015).

Résumé
Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history of Western philosophy, Raymond Barfield explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence.

Contenu

1. Socrates, Plato and the invention of the ancient quarrel; 2. Aristotle, poetry and ethics; 3. Plotinus, Augustine and strange sweetness; 4. Boethius, Dionysius and the forms; 5. Thomas, and some Thomists; 6. Vico's new science; 7. Kant and his students on the genius of nature; 8. Hegel and the owl of Minerva; 9. Kierkegaard: a poet, alas; 10. Dilthey: poetry and the escape from metaphysics; 11. Nietzsche, Heidegger and the saving power of poetry; 12. Mikhail Bakhtin and novelistic consciousness.