Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
Western metaphysics and IW can be described as a search for "first" presences, not absences. With the exception of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Aristotle, writers like Lord Rochester (John Wilmot), Jonathan Swift and Philip Larkin, no one, to my knowledge, has taken absence as a "first" and consequently as also a "last." This essay is a modest attempt to open the door, if only a crack, for investigations into the metaphysics and meaning of absence as a means of creating, and understanding an interesting IW—from the perspective of the presence of absence as "first" and as "last."
Recommended Citation
Washington, Gene, "Shots in the Dark: The Presence of Absence in Imaginative Literature (IW)" (2014). English Faculty Publications. Paper 639.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/english_facpub/639
