Philosophy has long claimed authority over meaning by virtue of its methods: argument, abstraction, and generalisation. Poetry, by contrast, has tended to operate in the register of singularity, affect, and image. Where philosophy seeks explanation, poetry presents appearance; where philosophy stabilises, poetry intensifies.
The question that emerges, often implicitly and sometimes with discomfort, is whether philosophy’s conceptual apparatus is always adequate to the phenomena it seeks to understand, particularly when those phenomena concern intimacy, memory, imagination, and dwelling.
It is at this point, when philosophy confronts the limits of its own explanatory confidence, that a reversal becomes thinkable.
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