Poets and Critics
Poets and Critics
Austin’s remarks about poetry elicit responses that seem to reflect mutual antipathy between philosophy and poetry. Poets and critics are quick to rebuke him for unprincipled levity and to discern symptoms of a deeper malaise in current philosophizing. This is particularly evident in various remarks of Geoffrey Hill and Christopher Ricks. They think the offence is the greater because Austin should have known better; that, unlike others in philosophy, he shows a poet’s sensibility for uses of language. But their inclination to depart from the evidence, and to supply unwarranted interpretations of Austin’s remarks and his reasons for making them, reveals a strong distrust of philosophy.
Keywords: Austin, Derrida, Cavell, Hill, Ricks, parasitic, Plato, Frege
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