Cogito
Eurozine
Cogito
2004-02-26
Summary for Cogito Nr. 38
There are two approaches in our poetry report: the first approach summarizes the historical conceptions of poetry and the historical development of the relation between poetry and reason; the second is the thinker's reasoning on poetry through either a single poem or the works of a poet.
The report starts with a Platonic dialogue by Samih Rifat summarizing the perception of poetry in Antiquity. Kemal Atakay focuses on Dante in explaining the identity of poetry in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Mahmut Erol Kilic reflects on the poetica of Sufi poetry, while I list certain aspects of the relation of the romantic thought to poetry, keeping Byron in focus. Dogan Özlem is beyond this chronological order when covering the issue of poetry and hermeneutics, while the interview with Enis Batur serves as a bridge to the second part, where we offer a compilation of the thinker's approach to the poet.
This part includes the classic texts of Heidegger's review of Trakl, Kristeva's review of Nerval, and Jakobson's review of Baudelaire, after which comes Ferda Keskin's approach to Ece Ayhan, and Levent Sentürk's approach to Ilhan Berk.
The focus of this issue is the Balkans. Our interview with Obrad Savic, one of the founders of the Belgrade Circle, the editor of the Belgrade Circle magazine, and editor of the book Balkan As Metaphor Between Globalization and Fragmentation, is followed by an article by a faculty member of Istanbul University, Hasine Sen, who interprets the Balkans as an area of metaphors. The last article of the focus is by Tomislav Longinovic, who questions the relation of vampire literature and Balkan conceptualisms.
As the negotiations over minimum wage have gained full speed in Turkey, we felt compelled to publish a rather controversial article entitled, "A Basic Income for All", for the sake of reminding everyone that an entirely different negotiation for minimum wage is going on in other parts of the world.
Summary by E. Efe Çakmak