Wallace Stevens: Anatheist Par Excellence
This paper hopes to show that, for Wallace Stevens, God and human imagination are closely identified. Moreover, the feeling of rightness, which for so long a time existed with the old religious idea of God, may be accessed once again. His notion of the “supreme fiction” will compare with Descartes’...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Journal for continental philosophy of religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 98-118 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Poetry B Wallace Stephens B Anatheism |
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| Summary: | This paper hopes to show that, for Wallace Stevens, God and human imagination are closely identified. Moreover, the feeling of rightness, which for so long a time existed with the old religious idea of God, may be accessed once again. His notion of the “supreme fiction” will compare with Descartes’ “idea of the Infinite” as interpreted by Emmanuel Levinas. This epistemological reality, central to our being, can also become contemporary to our lives, in a way that the old religious idea of God can never again be. With access to this “right idea,” we may again find the sort of solace that we once found in old religious beliefs. |
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| ISSN: | 2588-9613 |
| Reference: | Kommentar in "After Thoughts on After Gods: A Response to Hendel, Damen, Putt, and Hederman (2023)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for continental philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25889613-bja10044 |