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is inseparable from the political and vice versa.

The essays collected here assert that this ideology has crumbled. They see culture as composed of seriously contested codes and representations... they assume that the poetic and the political are inseparable, that science is in, not above, historical and linguistic processes. (2)

is not merely one cultural discourse among others, or an arena for competing historical forces, but a singular mode of ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’.

It is in this context that Heidegger turned to the poetic, not merely as one cultural discourse among others, or as an arena for competing historical forces, but as a singular mode of ‘truth’ and ‘knowledge’, meaning these no longer in the sense these have in philosophy or science traditionally understood, but precisely as modes of thought closed off and repressed by the Western tradition.

is to be preserved as the supreme site of openness to otherness, to a future not already predictable as the result of calculative processes.

As the site of such an event in the most fundamental human environment, namely language, the poetic is to be preserved as the supreme site of openness to otherness, to a future not already predictable as the result of calculative processes.

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