The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, 2/17/2014
EAN 9780521281232, ISBN10: 0521281237
Paperback, 232 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
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.
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.