Heidegger on Poetry: What is Sudeep Sen for?

• Authors: Ķencis Toms
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cross-reading of works by contemporary Indian English poet Sudeep Sen and German philosopher Martin Heidegger highlights some unexpected themes and parallels of both authors’ world-views. Somewhat poetical and often drawing on allusions, the analysis is inspired by the approach on new historicism and its founder, Stephan Greenblatt. Sen and Heidegger, both praised for their attention towards language and beyond, share discoveries regarding existence in destitute time, suspicion about science and technologies, and finding of traces that could lead let the man back to gods.

Keywords

EN

poetry; new historicism; Sudeep Sen; Martin Heidegger; Being; nature; philosophy

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Cracow Indological Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 17: Crossing over “on the Birds’ Wings”: South Asian Literature in Local and Global Contexts
• Pages: 293-310

Contributors

author

Ķencis Toms

• University of Latvia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.15