The Narrative Shape of Truth

Ilya Kliger

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Its champions--and its detractors--have often understood the novel as the genre par excellence of truthlessness. The Narrative Shape of Truth counters... Lees meer

Intentions

Arabella Lyon

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation... Lees meer

Imitation and Society

Tom Huhn

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that... Lees meer

Rhapsody of Philosophy

Max Statkiewicz

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato's dialogues. The dialogues have been... Lees meer

Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• The essays in this collection focus on the essentially moral desire within humanistic inquiry to seek a point of contact between personal experience a... Lees meer

An Image of the Soul in Speech

David N McNeill

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato's distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an es... Lees meer

The Smile of Tragedy

Daniel R Ahern

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy | nr. 32
• In The Smile of Tragedy , Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche's attitude toward what he called "the tragic age of the Greeks," showing it to be the founda... Lees meer

Philosophy and the Passions

Michel Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• The subject of the passions has always haunted Western philosophy and, more often than not, aroused harsh judgments. For the passions represent a forc... Lees meer

Living Poetically

Sylvia Walsh

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Living Poetically is the first book to focus primarily on Kierkegaard's existential aesthetics as opposed to traditional aesthetic features of his wri... Lees meer

The Ecstatic Quotidian

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the eve... Lees meer

Literary Theory After Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Donald Davidson is probably the most eminent living analytic philosopher, and his writings in philosophy of language and philosophy of action have sha... Lees meer

The Self-Deceiving Muse

Alan Singer

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Current philosophical discussions of self-deception remain steeped in disagreement and controversy. In The Self-Deceiving Muse, Alan Singer proposes a... Lees meer

William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation

David Haney

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Recent critics view Wordsworth's incarnational rhetoric as the expression of an unfulfilled desire for representational adequacy. David Haney, however... Lees meer

The Authority of Experience

John C O'Neal

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "... Lees meer

Freud and the Passions

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• John O'Neill explores the human passions as both the object of psychoanalysis and the creative principle of Freud's own discovery and practice of psyc... Lees meer

Becoming Human

Chad Wellmon

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant wrote that his infamously academic, arid philosophy posed three questions: What can I know? What can I do? What can I be permitted to ho... Lees meer

What's Hecuba to Him?

Eva M Dadlez

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Fiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events th... Lees meer

Postmodernisms Now

Charles Altieri

• Hardcover | Literature and Philosophy
• The author of this book defines five basic contradictions in postmodern theory and outlines specific artistic strategies for dwelling with and within ... Lees meer

The Challenge of Coleridge

David Haney

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in ... Lees meer

Rhetoric, Language, and Reason

Michel Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Contemporary or postmodern thought is based on the lack of foundation. The impossibility of having a principle for philosophy has become a position of... Lees meer

Shelley and the Chaos of History

Hugh Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• What is the role of poetry in bringing about change? This book explores that question in the writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley, examining his fascinati... Lees meer

Nietzsche's Noontide Friend

Sheridan Hough

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• Ever since Heidegger lectured on Nietzsche, philosophers have stressed the active side of the Übermensch, the self who aggressively consumes and explo... Lees meer

Emerson's Pragmatic Vision

David Jacobson

• Paperback | Engels | Literature and Philosophy
• The long ignored philosophical content of Emerson's writings has recently emerged as a central topic in Emerson studies. In Emerson's Pragmatic Vision... Lees meer