"in a situation in which philosophy is sutured either onto science or onto politics, certain poets, or rather certain poems, come to occupy the place where ordinarily the properly philosophical strategies of thought are declared."
I've definitely felt this. Or at least at the times when I was young and studying philosophy (in and out of a university phil degree I never finished), the awkward place that philosophy [especially continental philosophy] seats itself in the modern or post-modern era. Many philosophers in the continental tradition write like poets, perhaps with a bit of an obscurantist bent, and vice versa much of poetry reads as philosophy and it's difficult to pinpoint the role either has in the current time.
Many of the continental philosophers are/were clearly interested in producing a great work of art/letters, while pinning down concrete philosophical propositions in their works became more and more difficult. Anglo-American philosophy perhaps went the other direction.
I've definitely felt this. Or at least at the times when I was young and studying philosophy (in and out of a university phil degree I never finished), the awkward place that philosophy [especially continental philosophy] seats itself in the modern or post-modern era. Many philosophers in the continental tradition write like poets, perhaps with a bit of an obscurantist bent, and vice versa much of poetry reads as philosophy and it's difficult to pinpoint the role either has in the current time.
Many of the continental philosophers are/were clearly interested in producing a great work of art/letters, while pinning down concrete philosophical propositions in their works became more and more difficult. Anglo-American philosophy perhaps went the other direction.