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SHOTS IN THE DARK: THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE IN IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE (IW)
(2014)
Abstract
Western metaphysics and IW can be described as a search for "first" presences, not absences. With the exception of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Aristotle, writers like Lord Rochester (John Wilmot), Jonathan Swift and Philip Larkin, no one, to my knowledge, has taken absence as a "first" and consequently as also a "last." This essay is a modest attempt to open the door, if only a crack, for investigations into the metaphysics and meaning of absence as a means of creating, and understanding an interesting IW—from the perspective of the presence of absence as "first" and as "last."
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Citation Information
gene washington. SHOTS IN THE DARK: THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE IN IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE (IW). (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gene_washington/156/