The Poetic Experience of the World
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 18 (4):493-516 (2010)
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In this article I develop Heidegger's phenomenology of poetry, showing that it may provide grounds for rejecting claims that he lapses into linguistic idealism. Proceeding via an analysis of the three concepts of language operative in the philosopher's work, I demonstrate how poetic language challenges language's designative and world-disclosive functions. The experience with poetic language, which disrupts Dasein's absorption by emerging out of equipmentality in the mode of the broken tool, brings Dasein to wonder at the world's existence in such a way that doubt about its reality cannot enter the picture.
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Keywords | poetry Heidegger external world scepticism language phenomenology linguistic idealism |
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DOI | 10.1080/09672559.2010.503350 |
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