Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reissue, 2/28/2011
EAN 9780521175005, ISBN10: 0521175003

Paperback, 320 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English

The essays in this 1996 volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematised? The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their literary and philosophical inheritors and revisers. Their essays offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate, powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.

1. Introduction
from representation to poiesis Richard Eldridge
2. Confession and forgiveness
Hegel's poetics of action J. M. Bernstein
3. The values of articulation
aesthetics after the aesthetic ideology Charles Altieri
4. In their own voice
philosophical writing and actual experience Arthur C. Danto
5. Poetry and truth-conditions Samuel Fleischaker
6. Fractal contours
chaos and system in the Romantic fragment Azade Seyhan
7. The mind's horizon Stanley Bates
8. Kant, Hölderlin, and the experience of longing Richard Eldridge
9. Wordsworth and the reception of poetry Michael Fischer
10. Self-consciousness, social guilt, and Romantic poetry
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Old Pedlar Kenneth R. Johnston
11. Her blood and his mirror
Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray and the female self Christine Battersby
12. Scene
an exchange of letters Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.