Poetry And Emphatic Truth: Walter Benjamin’s Reading Of Hölderlin

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Richard Thomas Eldridge, Swarthmore CollegeFollow

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Article

Publication Date

2015

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Análisis: Revista De Investigación Filosófica

Abstract

Benjamin’s poetic theory is commented. It is noted that Benjamin follows Hölderlin in regarding a successful poem as a particular configuration that joins the intellectual and perceptual orders. Such a successful poem aims at and can possess not truth as correspondence to a given object, but rather what in the text is described as “emphatic truth”.

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Richard Thomas Eldridge. (2015). "Poetry And Emphatic Truth: Walter Benjamin’s Reading Of Hölderlin". Análisis: Revista De Investigación Filosófica. Volume 2, Issue 2. 301-310.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-philosophy/361