TY - JOUR
T1 - From Weltpoesie to Weltpoetik
T2 - World Poetics as Third-Order Observing
AU - Beebee, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - This essay explores the idea of a world poetics through the lens of system theory. I propose three hypotheses that relate to Wang Ning’s call for a world poetics: 1) world literature is coterminous with world poetics as guidelines for “making” world literature; 2) world literature is brought about by rendering the vast majority of literature invisible, whether the distinction is drawn geographically, generically, chronologically, or otherwise; and 3) world literature is third-order observing of literature, and that observing is its poetics. These theses are explained, exemplified, and applied to Wang’s ideas in the course of my piece.
AB - This essay explores the idea of a world poetics through the lens of system theory. I propose three hypotheses that relate to Wang Ning’s call for a world poetics: 1) world literature is coterminous with world poetics as guidelines for “making” world literature; 2) world literature is brought about by rendering the vast majority of literature invisible, whether the distinction is drawn geographically, generically, chronologically, or otherwise; and 3) world literature is third-order observing of literature, and that observing is its poetics. These theses are explained, exemplified, and applied to Wang’s ideas in the course of my piece.
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U2 - 10.1353/phl.2024.a930329
DO - 10.1353/phl.2024.a930329
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85197604481
SN - 0190-0013
VL - 48
SP - 48
EP - 64
JO - Philosophy and Literature
JF - Philosophy and Literature
IS - 1
ER -