{"product_id":"beyond-words-philosophy-fiction-and-the-unsayable-9781793614841","title":"Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is commonplace to regard many great works of literature—poems, dramas, works of fiction—as in some sense philosophical, yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete particulars that occurs in poetry and fiction. Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable elaborates on and addresses this Platonic tension, asking in what sense, if any, literature in the form of poetry, drama, short stories, and novels can contribute significantly to our philosophical understanding. Timothy Cleveland suggests there is something in certain poems, novels, and stories that makes them especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy, showing us something that a theoretical—scientific or philosophical—discourse cannot literally say.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Encountering the Ineffable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Platonic Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Experience of the Unsayable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The In Principle Ineffable and the Trivially Ineffable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Showing What Can Be Said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Showing What Cannot Be Said\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: How Plato Could Have Settled the Ancient Quarrel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042634039639,"sku":"9781793614841","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793614841.jpg?v=1750954943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-words-philosophy-fiction-and-the-unsayable-9781793614841","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}