The poetry of Wallace Stevens, constructed as it is around the poet’s central insight that poetry is an unofficial view of Being, has invited philosophical commentary from critics such as Simon Critchley and J. Hillis Miller who attempt to read Stevens’ imaginative engagements with reality as indicative of his continued interest in the most fundamental questions concerning the links between...
Nietzsche's central criticisms of the evaluative hierarchies he claims to be inscribed in the philosophical tradition and in various everyday practices are based on the idea that the self is opaque to itself. More specifically, he proposes that these hierarchies cannot be adequately explained without reference to a particular,form of self-deception he labels ressentiment. What makes this type...