Literature and Philosophy A Guide to Contemporary Debates

by Rudrum, David

• ISBN13: 9781403947734
• ISBN10: 1403947732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection charts the origins and consequences of the literature/philosophy dialogue, providing an overview of the field as well as discussing new developments in literary and philosophical scholarship. The collection is divided into four main parts: introductory perspectives; an overview of the key schools of thought; a discussion of debates between literature and philosophy; and an engagement with specific texts.

Author Biography

David Rudrum teaches part-time at Goldsmiths College and the Open University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Introduction — Literature and Philosophy: The Contemporary Interface	1	(8)
David Rudrum
Part I Encounters with Literature in French Philosophy	9	(28)
1 First Lessons: Gilles Deleuze and the Concept of Literature	13	(11)
Anthony Larson
2 'The Absence of Origin': Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy	24	(17)
Derval Tubridy
Part II Encounters with Literature in Anglo-American Philosophy	37	(40)
3 The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary	41	(12)
Bryan Vescio
4 Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the 'Descent into Ourselves'	53	(13)
Garry L. Hagberg
5 What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You?	66	(15)
Brett Bourbon
Part III Encounters with Literature in German Philosophy	77	(48)
6 A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf	81	(11)
Ralph Strehle
7 The Poetics of Thinking	92	(22)
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
8 Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe	114	(15)
Richard J. Lane
Part IV Literature and Philosophy: The Question of Ethics	125	(34)
9 Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy	129	(13)
Mary C. Rawlinson
10 Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?	142	(17)
Rupert Read
Part V Reading Philosophy as Literature	159	(60)
11 Who is Speaking? Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre	163	(7)
Michael Eskin
12 Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism	170	(9)
Andrew Benjamin
13 Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear, and the Plain Style	179	(15)
Jonathan Rée
14 Philosophy's Metaphors: Dennett, Midgley, and Derrida	194	(10)
Robert Eaglestone
15 Hearing Voices: A Dialogical Reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations	204	(15)
David Rudrum
Part VI Conclusion: Approaching the End	219	(24)
16 No Matter: Aesthetic Theory and the Self-annihilating Artwork	221	(10)
Josh Cohen
17 Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism	231	(12)
Simon Malpas
Index	243