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Giorgio Agamben, poetry, Arts & Humanities, Literary Theory & Criticism, Literature, 2005 Literary Studies, Literary Studies, 4705 Literary studies

Abstract:

Suspended between the poetic and the philosophical lies the metaphysical, the traditional domain of theology. By utilizing the work of Giorgio Agamben, this essay yet examines how the poetic can also exist as the last refuge of meaning in a world without its previous theological justifications, as in fact the ‘atheological’.