To Worship Burning Art: T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" as the Organon of F.W.J. von Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism.
Western philosophy has long been riven by debates over realism and idealism. T.S. Eliot entered this debate early in his career, ultimately turning to poetry as the relativizing solution to the problem. However, at the very closure of his poetic output, Eliot issues a subtly idealistic answer to the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 82 - 96 |
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