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Heidegger's Estrangements

Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Heidegger's Estrangements

Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings

By: Gerald L. Bruns

This book concerns the relationship between language and poetry in Heidegger's later writings. Gerald L. Bruns illuminates these difficult and strange writings by analyzing his style and form and by reflecting on the philosopher's insights.

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0300044208

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9780300044201

The Material of Poetry

Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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The Material of Poetry

Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics

By: Gerald L. Bruns

Poetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem. By spelling out such enabling conditions he gives us an engaging overview of some of the kinds of contemporary poetry that challenge our notions of what language is: sound poetry, visual or concrete poetry, and "found" poetry. Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied poets as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Steve McCaffery, and Francis Ponge to argue for three seemingly competing points. First, poetry is made of language but is not a use of it. That is, poetry is made of words but not of what we use words to produce: concepts, narratives, expressions of feeling, and so on. Second, as the nine sound poems on the CD included with the book demonstrate, poetry is not necessarily made of words but is rooted in, and in fact already fully formed by, sounds the human body can produce. Finally, poetry belongs to the world alongside ordinary things; it cannot be confined to some aesthetic, neutral, or disengaged dimension of human culture. Poetry without frontiers, unmoored from expectations, and sometimes even written in imaginary languages: Bruns shows us why, for the sake of all poetry, we should embrace its anarchic, vitalizing ways.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820327018

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9780820327013

Maurice Blanchot

The Refusal of Philosophy

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Maurice Blanchot

The Refusal of Philosophy

By: Gerald L. Bruns

Ch. 9 (pp. 207-234), "Blanchot's 'holocaust'", discusses the French thinker's philosophy of the Holocaust.

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JHU Press

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0801881994

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9780801881992

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

A Critical and Historical Study

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

A Critical and Historical Study

By: Gerald L. Bruns

-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett, and others.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564782697

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On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

A Guide for the Unruly

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

A Guide for the Unruly

By: Gerald L. Bruns

This book takes seriously the transformation of art into philosophy, focusing upon the systematic interest that so many European philosophers take in modernism. Among the philosophers Gerald Bruns discusses are Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Emmanuel Levinas. As Bruns demonstrates, the difficulty of much modern and contemporary poetry can be summarized in the idea that a poem is made of words, not of any of the things that we use words to produce: meanings, concepts, propositions, narratives, or expressions of feeling. Many modernist poets have argued that in poetry language is no longer a form of mediation but a reality to be explored and experienced in its own right.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823226328

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9780823226320

Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

By: Gerald L. Bruns

In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories going back to before the beginning of writing. What does it mean to understand a riddle, an action, a concept, a law, an alien culture, or oneself? Bruns expands our sense of the horizons of hermeneutics by situating its basic questions against a background of different cultural traditions and philosophical topics. He discusses, for example, the interpretation of oracles, the silencing of the muses and the writing of history, the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, the canonization of sacred texts, the nature of allegorical exegesis, rabbinical midrash, the mystical exegesis of the Qur'an, the rise of literalism and the individual interpreter, and the nature of Romantic hermeneutics. Dealing with thinkers ranging from Socrates to Luther to Wordsworth to Ricoeur, Bruns also ponders several basic dilemmas about the nature of hermeneutical experience, the meaning of tradition, the hermeneutical function of narrative, and the conflict between truth and freedom in philosophy and literature. His eloquent book demonstrates the continuing power of hermeneutical thinking to open up questions about the world and our place in it.

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Yale University Press

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0300063032

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9780300063035

Interruptions

The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Interruptions

The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature

By: Gerald L. Bruns

A history of fragmentary—or interrupted—writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic. In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns explores the effects of parataxis, or fragmentary writing as a device in modern literature. Bruns focuses on texts that refuse to follow the traditional logic of sequential narrative. He explores numerous examples of self-interrupting composition, starting with Friedrich Schlegel's inaugural theory and practice of the fragment as an assertion of the autonomy of words, and their freedom from rule-governed hierarchies. Bruns opens the book with a short history of the fragment as a distinctive feature of literary modernism in works from Gertrude Stein to Paul Celan to present-day authors. The study progresses to the later work of Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett, and argues, controversially, that Blanchot's writings on the fragment during the 1950s and early 1960s helped to inspire Beckett’s turn toward paratactic prose. The study also extends to works of poetry, examining the radically paratactic arrangements of two contemporary British poets, J. H. Prynne and John Wilkinson, focusing chiefly on their most recent, and arguably most abstruse, works. Bruns also offers a close study of the poetry and poetics of Charles Bernstein. Interruptions concludes with two chapters about James Joyce. First, Bruns tackles the language of Finnegans Wake, namely the break-up of words themselves, its reassembly into puns, neologisms, nonsense, and even random strings of letters. Second, Bruns highlights the experience of mirrors in Joyce’s fiction, particularly in Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, where mirrored reflections invariably serve as interruptions, discontinuities, or metaphorical displacements and proliferations of self-identity.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817359060

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9780817359065

What Are Poets For?

An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

By: Gerald L Bruns

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What Are Poets For?

An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

By: Gerald L Bruns

Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than in recent years. Gerald Bruns’s magisterial What Are Poets For? explores typographical experiments that distribute letters randomly across a printed page, sound tracks made of vocal and buccal noises, and holographic poems that recompose themselves as one travels through their digital space. Bruns surveys one-word poems, found texts, and book-length assemblies of disconnected phrases; he even includes descriptions of poems that no one could possibly write, but which are no less interesting (or no less poetic) for all of that. The purpose of the book is to illuminate this strange poetic landscape, spotlighting and describing such oddities as they appear, anomalies that most contemporary poetry criticism ignores. Naturally this breadth raises numerous philosophical questions that Bruns also addresses—for example, whether poetry should be responsible (semantically, ethically, politically) to anything outside itself, whether it can be reduced to categories, distinctions, and the rule of identity, and whether a particular poem can seem odd or strange when everything is an anomaly. Perhaps our task is simply to learn, like anthropologists, how to inhabit such an anarchic world. The poets taken up for study are among the most important and innovative in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Paul Celan, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery, John Matthias, J. H. Prynne, and Tom Raworth.What Are Poets For? is nothing less than a lucid, detailed study of some of the most intractable writings in contemporary poetry.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380800

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The Material of Poetry

Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics

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On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

A Guide for the Unruly

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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A Guide for the Unruly

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Perspectives in Continental Ph

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0823226336

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Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy

Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy

Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory

By: Gerald L. Bruns

In this text Bruns investigates the recent phenomenon of philosophers taking an interest in literature and literary theory.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810116758

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Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

A Critical and Historical Study

By: Gerald L. Bruns

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A Critical and Historical Study

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What Are Poets For?

An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

By: Gerald L Bruns

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An Anthropology of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

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1997 Year Book of Urology

By: Gerald L Andriole Jr M D,Vincent T. Andriole

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1997 Year Book of Urology

By: Gerald L Andriole Jr M D,Vincent T. Andriole

This annual reference work presents structured summaries of articles from over 950 journals. Accompanying the abstracts is a commentary which notes the practical and clinical applications of the material. The user can search by topic, procedure, drug or author.

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Book's by Gerald L Bruns

Heidegger's Estrangements

Heidegger's Estrangements

The Material of Poetry

The Material of Poetry

Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Interruptions

Interruptions

What Are Poets For?

What Are Poets For?

The Material of Poetry

The Material of Poetry

On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy

Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy

Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

What Are Poets For?

What Are Poets For?

1997 Year Book of Urology

1997 Year Book of Urology

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