189 dIALogUeS BeTweeN “THINKINg” ANd “PoeTry” ANd THeoreTIcAL-LITerAry HyBrIdS Marko Juvan Scientiic Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana Primerjalna književnost (Ljubljana) 29. Special Issue (2006) UdK 82.0:1 “Literature” and “theory” are historically determined and interdependent cultural entities. They were already linked in early romanticism, and be- came even more so in modernism and postmodernism/post-structuralism. The characteristic form of their interaction is theoretical-literary hybrids. In the context of the postmodern delegitimization and redistribution of knowledge, and the dispersion of textuality, the processes of the literariza- tion of theory and the theorization of literature are evident in these hybrids. However, the dialogues between “thinking” and “poetry” have, since an- tiquity, developed many other forms and genres. Although “thinking” and “poetry” have common attributes, they still remain irreducibly different. Keywords: literature, theory, hybridization, romanticism, postmodernism, post-structuralism Dialogue, Friction, Difference In general, writers and philosophers have inspired each other since early times and exchanged ideas, structures, exempla, and images. Literary language has managed to absorb even the discourse of science, although this was regarded as its antipode. strniša, for example, formed his poetic “universe” according to the models of the modern physics of Einstein and Heisenberg and developed its own particular fractal poetic (Vesolje). In his Cosmicomics, Calvino translated cosmological and evolutionary theories into stories much like fables but imbued with a contemporary sensibility and irony. There are even more examples of dialogue between literature and philosophy, two supposedly more closely related discourses: Homer – Plato, spinoza – goethe, schelling – Coleridge, schopenhauer – Borges, Nietzsche – dostoevsky, dostoevsky – Bakhtin, artaud – Foucault or Celan – derrida; 1 in the slovene sphere: Pirjevec – smole, anaximander – dekleva,