Titlebook: W.H. Auden; Towards A Postmodern Rainer Emig Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000 Modernism.poetic

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,From Eros to Agape: The Philosophy of Auden’s Later Works,that finds unequivocal expression in his writings. Auden himself mentions the incisive event of a sudden feeling of agape he experienced as early as 1933. Agape means ‘brotherly love’ without any sexual elements, and refers to the early Christian practice of a love-feast commemorating the Last Suppe

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Last Things,d with an interest in objective reality — and the very things which make it objective. Very much in the manner of Baudrillard’s prediction of the end of metaphysics through the ‘revenge of the objects’, Auden’s poetry executes its poetic . towards idealist metaphysics by concerning itself with the t

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,Auden’s Postmodernism,as their guideline. None the less, it has clearly emerged that the theoretical debates that take place in Auden’s writings are analogous to the intellectual discussions that have characterised the last decades of this century. The present study was triggered off by the suspicion that Auden’s poetics

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Book 2000r engagement with crucial contemporary problems: that of the individual in relation to others, loved ones, community, society, but also transcendental truths. It shows that rather than providing firm answers, Auden‘s poetry emphasises the absence of certainties. Yet far from becoming nihilistic, it

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Last Things, rationality, and libido, or love and sexuality. On the side of the object world, what happens is described by the German theologian Martin Buber as ‘the hallowing of the everyday’,. except that in Auden’s late work this hallowing takes place without a necessary reference to definite religious beliefs.

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