The Contest Between Poetry and Philosophy: From Plato to Nietzsche, Heidegger

Author: (USA) Rosen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Although Rosen believes in the truth elucidated by the modernist poet Eliot that "poetry and philosophy are different languages of the same world," his teacher Strauss helped him understand that "there is an irreconcilable tension between the two languages." Therefore, rather than trying to offer a compromise solution for this "irreconcilable tension" in his works, Rosen aims to demonstrate the complexity and richness of this conflict. Starting from ancient Greece, particularly Plato, Rosen examines the crises faced by modern thought since Nietzsche from multiple perspectives. He both explores the historicalism and nihilism that result from "philosophy investing in poetry" and reflects on the tragedy of equating philosophy with cold mathematics, which leads to its own decline into a craft and the fall of the love for philosophy.