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Philosophy in Literature: Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tolstoy & Proust » Read Now
by Morris Weitz. 120 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...Philosophy in Literature Philosophy in Literature by Morris Weitz The Ohio State...literature, but with I. A. Richards' attack on philosophy in literature. Richards' great...
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An Introduction to Philosophy Through Literature » Read Now
by Robert C. Baldwin, James A. S. McPeek. 602 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...students to philosophy through the...from good literature. Our experience in teaching...courses in philosophy in literature that have...who planted in our...
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Literature, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences: Essays in Existentialism and Phenomenology » Read Now
by Maurice Natanson. 220 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...SCIENCES LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE...ESSAYS IN EXISTENTIALISM...Paul Sartres Philosophy of Freedom...Object," in Spanish...Theory of Literature" and...
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Writers and Philosophers: A Sourcebook of Philosophical Influences on Literature » Read Now
by Edmund J. Thomas, Eugene G. Miller. 276 pgs.

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This book provides strong guidance to teachers and students of literature that gives them a greater understanding of the philosophical influences on more than 100 major literary figures. The text describes philosophical influences reflected in their writings as well as references to philosophical...
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This book provides strong guidance to teachers and students of literature that gives them a greater understanding of the philosophical influences on more than 100 major literary figures. The text describes philosophical influences reflected in their writings as well as references to philosophical works that are known to have played a part in their intellectual and aesthetic development.
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Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored » Read Now
by Arabella Lyon. 215 pgs.

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A philosophical study that introduces a new concept of intention into literary analysis.
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on...
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A philosophical study that introduces a new concept of intention into literary analysis.
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes how an audience's intentions affect their interpretations, shows how audiences negotiate meaning when faced with a writer's undecipherable intentions, and defines the scope of understanding within rhetorical situations.
Introducing a concept of intention into literary analysis that supersedes existing rhetorical theory, Arabella Lyon shows how the rhetorics of I. A. Richards, Wayne Booth, and Stanley Fish, as well as the hermeneutics of Hans Georg Gadamer, fail to account for the complex interactions of author and audience. Using Kenneth Burke's concepts of form, motive, and purpose, she builds a more complex notion of intention than those usually found in literary studies, then employs her theory to describe how philosophers read Wittgenstein's narratives, metaphors, and reversals in argument.
Lyon argues that our differences in intention prevent consistency in interpretations but do not stop our discussions, deliberations, and actions. She seeks to acknowledge difference and the communicative problems it creates while demonstrating that difference is normal and does not end our engagement with each other.
Intentions combines recent work in philosophy, literary criticism, hermeneutics, and rhetoric in a highly imaginative way to construct a theory of intention for a postmodern rhetoric. Itrecovers and renovates central concepts in rhetorical theory -- not only intention but also deliberation, politics, and judgment.
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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology » Read Now
by Ronald E. Martin. 394 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...Pseudoproblems in Philosophy , ed./trans...Gertrude Steins Four in America 1947...is a study of the literature produced by a number...the worlds great literature and its...
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Early Stevens: The Nietzschean Intertext » Read Now
by B. J. Leggett. 270 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...commentary on which I draw is always in agreement or that the Nietzsche of my...Nehamas, whose recent Nietzsche: Life as Literature helped me shape some of the...
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A Philosophical Novelist: George Santayana and the Last Puritan » Read Now
by H. T. Kirby-Smith. 209 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...1863-1952. Last Puritan. 2. Philosophy in literature. I. Title. PS2772...highly literary form of philosophy because it is through...the arts -- through literature -- that...
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Philosophical Shakespeares » Read Now
by John J.Joughin. 130 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity. Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in...
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Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity. Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in Shakespeare's work. In the course of rethinking these issues, Philosophical Shakespeares actively encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and ranges from problem-centred readings of particular plays to more general elaborations of the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.
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Philosophy and German Literature, 1700-1990 » Read Now
by Nicholas Saul. 324 pgs.

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Although the importance of the interplay of literature and philosophy in Germany has often been examined within individual works or groups of works by particular authors, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue of German literature and philosophy as a whole. This study offers...
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Although the importance of the interplay of literature and philosophy in Germany has often been examined within individual works or groups of works by particular authors, little research has been undertaken into the broader dialogue of German literature and philosophy as a whole. This study offers six chapters by leading specialists on the dialogue between German literary writers and philosophers through their works.
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The Erotic Bird: Phenomenology in Literature » Read Now
by Maurice Natanson. 169 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

How does literature illuminate the way we live? Maurice Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's unique power to show how fiction can highlight aspects of experience that are normally left unexamined. By exploring the structure of the everyday world, Natanson reveals...
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How does literature illuminate the way we live? Maurice Natanson, a prominent champion of phenomenology, draws upon this method's unique power to show how fiction can highlight aspects of experience that are normally left unexamined. By exploring the structure of the everyday world, Natanson reveals the "uncanny" that lies at the core of the ordinary. Phenomenology--which involves the questioning of that which we usually take for granted--is for Natanson the essence of philosophy.
Drawing upon his philosophical predecessors Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schutz, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Natanson paves his own way with stories and examples that themselves bear witness to how phenomenology occurs in literature. In considering such works as Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot, Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain, and Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis, Natanson shows how literature opens us to the domain of possibility and how metaphor offers philosophical power when we think about freedom and change.
This book, written by one of the twentieth century's leading phenomenologists, will interest students in philosophy and in literature. They will valu
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Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature » Read Now
by Genevieve Lloyd. 192 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

Genevieve Lloyd's book is a provocative and accessible essay on the fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, consciousness changes as time passes: given this, can there ever be such a thing as the unity of the self? Being in Time explores the...
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Genevieve Lloyd's book is a provocative and accessible essay on the fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, consciousness changes as time passes: given this, can there ever be such a thing as the unity of the self? Being in Time explores the emotional aspects of the human experience of time, commonly neglected in philosophical investigation, by looking at how narrative creates and treats the experience of the self as fragmented and the past as 'lost'. It shows the continuities, and the contrasts, between modern philosophic discussions of the instability of the knowing subject, treatments of the fragmentation of the self in the modern novel and older philosophical discussions of the unity of consciousness. Being in Time combines theoretical discussion with human experience: it will be valuable to anyone interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature, as well as to a more general audience of readers who share Augustine's experience of time as making him a 'problem to himself'.
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