A Defense of Poetry Reflections on the Occasion of Writing [Hardcover]

This book argues that literaturecanbe defined—pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding—and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. The author identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the ostensive moment that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence but existence itself, revealed in its nonhuman register.