Search Results for philosophy and literature

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... lead to the loss of the subject’s ontologic wholeness. Krzhizhanovsky offers this insight as literature’s corrective to idealistic philosophy’s treatment of language and a foundation for a new, intersubjective ethics that takes the splintered subject as a given. This essay argues that reading the story...

... Asian and ancient Mediterranean cultures. Looking at examples from literature, philosophy, and fine art, it shows that making analogies between classical Chinese and Japanese cultures and ancient Greece and Rome was a shared strategy among prominent European and East Asian figures seeking to renew...

...Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé This essay takes up the significance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for our understanding of literature (and vice versa) through a comparative reading of the stakes and aims of Kafka's and Wittgenstein's respective circa 1922 puzzle texts “Von den Gleichnissen” (“On Parables...

...Alex Spektor The essay offers a comparative study of “narrative ethics” in the prose of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Witold Gombrowicz. Analyzing the relationship between the texts' poetics and moral philosophy, the essay investigates how narrative dynamics of fiction shape the ethical parameters...

..., or what the author calls the “sinograph.” Bachner reveals her broad interests and multiple abilities by examining a wide range of phenomena and texts: philosophy, literature, film, art, architecture, and digital media, mostly from the modern and contemporary period. Central to her investigation...

.... Cambridge University Press, 2015. 313 p. The concept of the sublime has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years across a range of fields such as philosophy, literature, architecture, and the arts. Robert Doran’s contribu- tion, The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant, which approaches...

... voor Philosophie (Sept. 1963): 605-23. Translated as “The Trace of the Other.” Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy . Ed. Mark C. Taylor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986 . 345 -59. Moevs, Christian. The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press...

... Kundery . Brno : Atlantis , 1994 . Print . Cunningham Anthony . The Heart of What Matters: The Role of Literature in Moral Philosophy . Berkeley : U of California P , 2001 . Print . Derrida Jacques . “Je suis en guerre contre moi-même.” Le Monde 19 Aug. 2004 . 12 – 13...

... ranges through philosophy, literature, and other arts to offer a hauntingly powerful vision of what was and still is “the subject.” The committee also wants to mention, honorably, Isobel Armstrong’s wide- ranging and timely study, The Radical Aesthetic, published by Blackwell, for its deft moving...

....” Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1968 . 234 – 59 . Print . Taylor Charles . “A Place for Transcendence?” Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond . Ed. Schwartz Regina M. . New York : Routledge , 2004 . 1 – 11...

... of Philosophy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 . Rutherford, R.B. The Art of Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 . COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/178 BOOK REVIEWS THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE: AN AESTHETICS...

... that Hippias is made out to be doesn’t help us see why these rivals were clearly a worrying concern for Plato. But this is a substantial study, offering close and fine-grained readings richly backed up with scholarship on Greek philosophy, literature, and culture. The fo- cus on Plato’s characters...

... backed up with scholarship on Greek philosophy, literature, and culture. The fo- cus on Plato’s characters is bound to continue with the recent publication of a superb study documenting what is known about all the people named in the corpus.1 1 Debra Nails’s The People of Plato: A Prosopography...

... backed up with scholarship on Greek philosophy, literature, and culture. The fo- cus on Plato’s characters is bound to continue with the recent publication of a superb study documenting what is known about all the people named in the corpus.1 1 Debra Nails’s The People of Plato: A Prosopography...

... entities” and set their goal “to investigate equivalent figurations or symbolisms rather than to produce a sweeping set of contrasts between East and West” (2, 7). They achieved that goal admirably through innovative readings of classical texts of Greek and Chinese literature, history, and philosophy...

...DAVID KELMAN University of Oregon 2008 Anidjar, Gil. Our Place in al-Andalus: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 . Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958 . Bahti, Timothy...