The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy
Part of Cambridge Introductions to Literature
- Author: Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: February 2014
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521281232
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Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form. And yet, from ancient times to the present, they have often sharply diverged, both in their approach to these questions and in their relationship to one another. Moreover, the vast differences among individual writers, historical periods, and languages pose challenges for anyone wishing to understand the relationship between them. This Introduction provides a synthetic and original guide to this vast terrain. It uncovers the deep interests that literature and philosophy share while offering a lucid account of their differences. It sheds new light on many standing debates and offers students and scholars of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy a chance to think freshly about questions that have preoccupied the Western tradition from its very beginnings up until the present.
Read more- Provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present
- Covers a wide range of genres, historical periods, and topics revolving around questions of truth, value, and form
- Includes sidebars featuring special topics, a glossary of keywords, and suggestions for further reading that accompany each chapter
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- Date Published: February 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521281232
- length: 228 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.32kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Questions of Truth and Knowledge:
1. The 'ancient quarrel'
2. Action, imitations, conventions of make-believe
3. The single observer standpoint and its limits
4. Contingency, irony, edification: changing the conversation about truth
Part II. Questions of Value:
5. Values, contingencies, conflicts
6. Reason and autonomy, imagination and feeling
7. Forces and the will
8. Opacity
Part III. Questions of Form:
9. Ubiquitous form
10. Linguistic turns
11. Form, narrative, novel
12. Forms and fragments
Afterword: limits.
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