...Timothy Wright [email protected] The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing , by Jeanne-Marie Jackson . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 . 223 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Oregon 2023...

...Ilya Kliger Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject . By Erdinast-Vulcan Daphna . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2013 . 260 p. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Works Cited Bakhtin Mikhail . Art and Answerability: Early...

... . Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature . New York : Routledge , 1994 . Print . Levenson Rosemary . Chinese Linguist, Phonologist, Composer and Author, Yuen Ren Chao . Berkeley : The Bancroft Library , 2007 . Web. < http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId...

...Catherine Toal Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language . By Quigley Megan . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 224 p . © 2017 by University of Oregon 2017 BOOK REVIEWS / 343...

..., I read the story through the prism of three key allegories from Plato’s The Republic : the allegories of the sun, the line, and the cave. I argue that Krzhizhanovsky deconstructs the main postulates of Platonic philosophy by showing that the acquisition of knowledge and the act of writing inevitably...

...Adrienne Janus This essay analyzes Jean-Luc Nancy's recent work À L'Écoute (2002)/ Listening (2007) as a culminating moment in what might be called the “anti-ocular” turn in Continental philosophy. It situates Nancy within a genealogy of “otocentric” thinkers that includes Martin Heidegger, Peter...

...IGNACIO M. SÁNCHEZ PRADO Leopoldo Zea's philosophy of history constitutes a cogent interrogation of the colonial legacy in Mexico and thus also serves to demonstrate the importance of Latin America as a site of theoretical enunciation. This essay addresses Zea's early work on Mexico and his...

...Eleanor Kaufman This essay argues that twentieth- and twenty-first-century French philosophy (“French theory”) is aligned around a theory of difference that would contest many of the “comparative” frameworks of the discipline of Comparative Literature, including the question of original languages...

...Matthew Lau This article argues that a 1931 text by Wittgenstein discussing Beethoven, philosophy, and cultural history sheds a unique light on both Wittgenstein's later philosophy and the relationship between music and philosophical thought more broadly. The first part of the essay claims...

...Stanley Corngold Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and the Culture of the Fin de Siècle in Europe. By Charles Bernheimer. Edited by T. Jefferson Kline and Naomi Schor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 228 p. University of Oregon 2004...

... (Créations Re-créations Récréations) . Paris: Gallimard, 1973 . 23 -27. Mathews, Harry. Cigarettes . New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 . Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Philosophy of Composition.” Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews . Ed. G.R. Thompson. New York: Library of America, 1984 . 13...

...Michael Moon Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson. By David Wittenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 266 p. University of Oregon 2002 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/268 BOOK...

...Steven Shaviro Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy after the New Media. By David Norman Rodowick. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. xviii, 276 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/270 READING THE FIGURAL, OR, PHILOSOPHY AFTER THE NEW MEDIA. By David Norman Rodowick...

...Karl Fink The Romantic Conception of Life. Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. By Robert J. Richards. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xix, 587 p. University of Oregon 2004 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/192...

... the Christian scene of a postlapsarian incarnation. Yet, after the publication of The Unconstructable Earth , I also understood this rebirth evoked an older scene, one framed by ancient Greek philosophy, where falling bodies are supposed to return to their natural “place,” as Aristotle posited ( Physics...

...Frances L. Restuccia This essay responds to Giorgio Agamben’s call for a renewed interlacing of philosophy and poetry by illustrating how literature can enable philosophy to represent and enjoy its object as well as how philosophy can render literature more conscious of its object. J.M. Coetzee’s...

...Anthony Cordingley This article elucidates the dialectic between Pythagorean-Platonic and Democritean ideas latent in Beckett's final work of long prose, Comment c'est/How It Is (1961/1964), and measures the importance of Beckett's perception of philosophy gained through his study of Wilhelm...

...Alexander Lewis Abstract This article looks at the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early philosophy of language on the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka’s essay / prose poem “Expressive Language” ends with a quotation from Wittgenstein: “Can the concept of God exist in a perfectly logical...

...Jessie Hock Abstract In the 1983 article “My Chances/ Mes chances : A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies,” Jacques Derrida gives philological questions massive philosophical significance by reading the long âgon between idealist and materialist philosophy through a philological crux...