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alright, i concede. heidegger is not so bad; i still think his philosophy is sterile, wordy and free of any logical base but it hangs together like a junk sculpture. you can't help but admire the craftsmanship involved and how all the pieces are fused together. believe it or not, this was the turning point for me in appreciating heidegger's work:
Only poetry stands in the same order as philosophy and its thinking.
so refreshing to see that on a page! it's so strange that poetry and philosophy are held by so many as mutually exclusive types of literature when they share so much in common. even stranger still is it to read nietzsche's beautiful synthesis of crackling prose and revaluation in Thus Spoke Zarathustra... only to hear him dismiss poets for forwarding their ideas on "a carriage of rhythm, because they were too weak to walk." for a movement such as existentialism, rooted so firmly in the subjective experiences of the individual, to reject poetry as a lack of distinction between truth and error is baffling to me. philosophy should be posed as an answer to dogma; it should be fluid and dynamic. it is poetry that allows students to learn philosophy and simultaneously induldge their own thoughts on existence, poetry that relates to man individually through his interpretation, poetry that liberates the spirit, and i think the marriage of poetry and philosophy should be celebrated.
Only poetry stands in the same order as philosophy and its thinking.
so refreshing to see that on a page! it's so strange that poetry and philosophy are held by so many as mutually exclusive types of literature when they share so much in common. even stranger still is it to read nietzsche's beautiful synthesis of crackling prose and revaluation in Thus Spoke Zarathustra... only to hear him dismiss poets for forwarding their ideas on "a carriage of rhythm, because they were too weak to walk." for a movement such as existentialism, rooted so firmly in the subjective experiences of the individual, to reject poetry as a lack of distinction between truth and error is baffling to me. philosophy should be posed as an answer to dogma; it should be fluid and dynamic. it is poetry that allows students to learn philosophy and simultaneously induldge their own thoughts on existence, poetry that relates to man individually through his interpretation, poetry that liberates the spirit, and i think the marriage of poetry and philosophy should be celebrated.