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Philippe Beck, « L'époque de la poésie », Littérature, ID : 10.3406/litt.2000.1694
The Contemporary Conflict Seneca observed that many poets said what philosophers had already said or should have said. Poetry fills in for philosophy, in fact if not by right, necessarily so if one is to know and let know. The contemporary articulation of the relationship, given the historicity of the poetic act, is poetry's role in making philosophy consider the historicity of the concept, in other words be philosophy.