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Literature and Philosophy

A Guide to Contemporary Debates

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. David Rudrum

    1. London Metropolitan University, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction — Literature and Philosophy: The Contemporary Interface

    1. Introduction — Literature and Philosophy: The Contemporary Interface

      • David Rudrum
      Pages 1-8

  3. Encounters with Literature in French Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-12
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    2. First Lessons: Gilles Deleuze and the Concept of Literature

      • Anthony Larson
      Pages 13-23

    3. ‘The Absence of Origin’: Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy

      • Derval Tubridy
      Pages 24-36

  4. Encounters with Literature in Anglo-American Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-40
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    2. The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary

      • Bryan Vescio
      Pages 41-52

    3. Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the Descent into Ourselves

      • Garry L. Hagberg
      Pages 53-65

    4. What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You?

      • Brett Bourbon
      Pages 66-76

  5. Encounters with Literature in German Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-80
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    2. A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf

      • Ralph Strehle
      Pages 81-91

    3. The Poetics of Thinking

      • Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
      Pages 92-113

    4. Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin’s Goethe

      • Richard J. Lane
      Pages 114-123

  6. Literature and Philosophy: The Question of Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-128
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    2. Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy

      • Mary C. Rawlinson
      Pages 129-141

    3. Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?

      • Rupert Read
      Pages 142-158

  7. Reading Philosophy as Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-162
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    2. Who is Speaking? Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre

      • Michael Eskin
      Pages 163-169

    3. Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism

      • Andrew Benjamin
      Pages 170-178

    4. Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear, and the Plain Style

      • Jonathan Rée
      Pages 179-193
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About this book

A collection of essays, grounded in state-of-the-art research that explores contemporary debates at the interface between literature and philosophy. It brings together diverse schools of thought and provides both a useful overview and an examination of one of the most fascinating cross-disciplinary encounters in the humanities today.

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'A superb collection. The essays are original, provocative interventions across a range of live debates. Combined with the editor's concise essays on the distinct traditions and subfields, they provide readers with a lucid entry into the complex relations between philosophy and literature, demonstrating anew how neither can do without the other. A must for students and scholars alike.' - Dr. Michael John Kooy, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • London Metropolitan University, UK

    David Rudrum

About the editor

ANDREW BENJAMIN Professor of Critical Theory in Design and Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia BRETT BOURBON Assistant Professor and Director of the English Undergraduate Honours Programme in the Department of English at Stanford University, USA JOSH COHEN Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK ROBERT EAGLESTONE Royal Holloway, University of London, UK MICHAEL ESKIN Columbia University, New York, USA JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York City, USA GARY L. HAGBERG James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College and Director of the Programme in Philosophy and the Arts RICHARD J. LANE Professor of English at Malaspina-University College, British Columbia, Canada ANTHONY LARSON is Maître de Conférences in English Studies at the Université du Maine le Mans, France SIMON MALPAS Lecturer in English at Edinburgh University, UK MARY C. RAWLINSON Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University in New York, USA RUPERT READ Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Literature and Philosophy Programme at the University of East Anglia, UK JONATHAN RÉE holds visiting positions at Roehampton University and the Royal College of Art, UK RALPH STREHLE Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK DERVAL TUBRIDY Lecturer in English and VisualCulture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK BRYAN VESCIO Assistant Professor of English and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA

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