Meaning of unpoeticity | Babel Free

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The quality of being unpoetic.

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“However, in our zeal to eliminate the ‘unpoeticity’ of the translation, we have⟳ also got rid⟳ of an important asset of the original—its characteristic roughness.”

“Thus, it is the issue⟳ of heritage that weighs on the poetic production of the 1980s. But, as the persistence of certain motifs of realistic “unpoeticity” demonstrate⟳, this inheritance that leans more toward the esthetic than the engagé did not lead⟳ to the hermetic and hermeticizing ivory tower.”

“In Heidegger, we become⟳ losers of the poetic in the world whose unpoeticity “derives from a curious excess of frantic measuring and calculating” (Heidegger 2001: 226), that is to say⟳ from finitude, from the very possibility of quantification. The degree of poeticity seems to be increasing in Heidegger with the decrease of calculation, evaluation and predictability.”

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