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Book SynopsisA distinguished group of authors reflects on problems currently enlivening the space shared by philosophy and literary theory in a series of chapters that range in scope from Plato to postmodernism.
Trade ReviewAt the forefront of the most exciting, important, original, and serious recent work both in post-foundational moral philosophy and in literary theory. This work is nicely juxtaposed... with the more skeptical essays of the postmodernist textualist. Revue Internationale de Philosophie In these impressive essays, philosophy rediscovers that it is written; literature recaptures its moral seriousness. -- Michael Fischer Philosophy and Literature
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Anthony J. Cascardi
Chapter 1. Philosophy as/ and/ of Literature
Chapter 2. Philosophy and Poetry: The Difference between Them in Plato and Descartes
Chapter 3. Philosophical Discourses and Fictional Texts
Chapter 4. Levels of Discourse in Plato's Dialogues
Chapter 5. From the Sublime to the Natural: Romantic Responses to Kant
Chapter 6. From Expressivist Aesthetics to Expressivist Ethics
Chapter 7. "Finely Aware and Richly Responsible": Literature and the Moral Imagination
Chapter 8. Why Intentionalism Won't Go Away
Chapter 9. The Limits of Interpretation
Chapter 10. Endowment, Enablement, Entitlement: Toward a Theory of Constitution
Chapter 11. Writer, Text, Work, Author
Chapter 12. Rewriting the Self: Barthes and the Utopias of Language
Chapter 13. Postmodernism in Philosophy: Nostalgia for the Future, Waiting for the Past
Notes on Contributors
