Abstract

"To Reserve Translation": From Kant to Rimbaud The irreflexive, rapid, immediate act of poetry, constitutes by this act a reserve of language for translation and history, because the very immediacy of poetry preserves it from historicity and oblivion. This definition, which applies to romantic poetry, shows the genre to enact dialectical materialism in Benjamin's sense - and thus to be the allegory of philosophy.

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