Title
The Cambridge introduction to literature and philosophy / Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California, Berkeley.
ISBN
9780521281232 paperback
0521281237 paperback
9781107010543 hardcover
1107010543 hardcover
Published
New York, NY USA : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
vii, 223 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN45 .C3388 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
801
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Cambridge introductions to literature.
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.
