[pierrem15]

"Perhaps the poetry is an attempt to subvert the restraints of a faulty language"

Heidegger looked to the poets to find a language that did not participate in the philosophical reduction or restriction of the question of the meaning of Sein prevalent since Plato (in his view).

But the implicit reduction of all speech to a kind of faulty philosophical argumentation on the part of French post-modernist thought is precisely the kind of totalitarian homegenization of language and interpretation Heidegger complained about, and (ironically) which they claim to have overcome.

[Blind Eye Jones]

You're right about Kojeve, who with Heidegger have influenced French postmodern thought. I have read a book on him by Shedia B. Drury called "Alexander Kojeve: the Roots of Postmodern Politics" and it's a fascinating read. Drury is a liberal critic and has written books and reviews on Leo Strauss and some of his disciples/students, eg., Alan Bloom. Strauss and Kojeve are interesting people and have left a mark both in France and the US through some of the people they taught.

If I understand you correctly, the post moderns (eg., Derrida) were homogenizing language by reducing all speech to their singular viewpoint: that it is philosophically unsound. In other words, nothing escapes the knife of deconstruction which exposes the inherent contradictions in language. This in some way is almost their creation of a grand narrative or world view of language which needs the grand methodology of deconstruction. Nothing escapes this view of seeing contradictions and the uneasy tension of duality underlying language, including elusive poetry. As much as they tear down one view of language with one hand they are building with the other hand.

If this is not what you had in mind let me know.