7. “I Am a Poem, Not a Poet”: Jacques Lacan’s Philosophy of Poetry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. The Agonizing Agon: Meditations on a Conjugality 1
4. 2. As the World Turns: Heidegger and the Origin of Poetry 23
5. 3. Benjamin’s Baudelaire 43
6. 4. Georges Bataille and the Hatred of Poetry 56
7. 5. Voicing Thought: Arendt, Poetry, and Philosophy 69
8. 6. Language and the Poetic Word in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics 84
9. 7. “I Am a Poem, Not a Poet”: Jacques Lacan’s Philosophy of Poetry 97
10. 8. Adorno: Poetry After Poetry 113
11. 9. Sartre and Poetry: Je t’aime, moi non plus (I Love You— Me Neither) 131
12. 10. Levinas and the Poetical Turn of Being 143
13. 11. The Intoxicated Conversation: Maurice Blanchot and the Poetics of Critical Masks 160
14. 12. Merleau- Ponty, Ponge, and Valéry on Speaking Things: Phenomenology and Poetry 175
15. 13. Deleuze and Poetry 195
16. 14. Irigaray’s Breath, or Poetry After Poetics 209
17. 15. On the Persistence of Hedgehogs 235
18. 16. What Are Philosophers For in the Age of the Poets? Badiou with and Against Heidegger 248
19. 17. Jean- Luc Nancy: Poetry, Philosophy, Technicity 271
20. 18. Rancière on Poetry 283
21. 19. Desire Against Discipline: Kristeva’s Theory of Poetry 296
22. 20. Agamben and Poetry 311
23. List of Contributors 329
24. Index 333