Description: This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry.
Brief description: Ranjan Ghosh (PhD, University of North Bengal) is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal. He is the author of Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet from Philip Sidney to T.S. Eliot (Routledge, 2016), The Poet's School: Rabindranath Tagore and Philosophy of Education (Palgrave, 2014), and Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading (Berghahn, 2012); the coauthor (with J. Hillis Miller) of Thinking Literature Across Continents (Duke, 2016); the editor of Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perapectives from Europe to Asia (Routledge, 2012) and Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World (Routledge, 2009); and the coeditor (with Ethan Kleinberg) of Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century (Cornell, 2013).
Review Quotes: This very exciting collection offers admirably concise and often brilliant essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophers and their relationship to, reliance on, commentaries about poetry. Any student of European thinking, especially of those central strains of the 'continental tradition' that take their origin in phenomenology, will learn a great deal not only from the specific essays in this collection but also from the interplay between them.--John Michael, author of Secular Lyric: The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson