Summary
Eugen Fink: Epilogues to poetry
Fink shows his understanding of the relationship between philosophy and poetry in the very title Epilogues to poetry: philosophical thinking as an afterword (smloyoi) of poetic speech leaves both philosophy and poetry as they are; it does not mean leading after poetry, nor subjugating, nor leaving philosophy to poetry, whereby philosophy simply accepts the poetic word, but philosophy as a commentary and interpretation of poetry pursues its goals and thus, rightfully, remains what it is, in the principled subsequentness of its speech about poetic and every other reality. Philosophy starts from a comprehensive relationship to the world that does not concern art in the first place, in order to raise the question of whether, why and how such a thing as art is even possible and necessary. - If "poetry itself does not need philosophical exegesis", then philosophy, from its point of view, cannot ignore such a significant phenomenon of human survival in culture as poetry. In this sense, philosophy can, as it has traditionally done, reason about art from a metaphysical, i.e. extra-artistic center, about the being of the artistically beautiful and the naturally beautiful, reflect on the poetic vision, etc., but it can also start from the "essential experiences" that we gain thanks to art and try to understand the world and man's position in it with art
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