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Literary Form, Philosophical Content .................17525$ $$FM 04-19-1013:42:01 PS PAGE1 .................17525$ $$FM 04-19-1013:42:02 PS PAGE2 Literary Form, Philosophical Content Historical Studies of Philosophical Genres Edited by Jonathan Lavery and Louis Groarke • Madison Teaneck FairleighDickinsonUniversityPress .................17525$ $$FM 04-19-1013:42:03 PS PAGE3 (cid:2)2010byRosemontPublishing&PrintingCorp. Allrightsreserved.Authorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluse, ortheinternalorpersonaluseofspecificclients,isgrantedbythecopyrightowner, provided thata base feeof $10.00, plus eightcents per page,per copy is paid di- rectlytotheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive,Danvers,Massachu- setts01923.[978-0-8386-4260-3/10$10.00(cid:3)8¢pp,pc.] AssociatedUniversityPresses 2010EastparkBoulevard Cranbury,NJ08512 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials Z39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Literaryform,philosophicalcontent:historicalstudiesofphilosophicalgenres/ editedbyJonathanLaveryandLouisGroarke. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8386-4260-3(alk.paper) 1.Philosphicalliterature—Historyandcriticism. 1.Lavery,JonathanAllen, 1965– II.Groarke,Louis. B52.7.L58 2010 190—dc22 2009033843 printedintheunitedstatesofamerica .................17525$ $$FM 04-19-1013:42:04 PS PAGE4 Theeditors dedicatetheirworkonthisbooktotheirmothers: ElizabethJoyceLavery CharlotteMaryGroarke .................17525$ $$FM 04-19-1013:42:04 PS PAGE5 .................17525$ $$FM 04-19-1013:42:04 PS PAGE6 Contents Preface 9 Introduction:GenreasaTool ofPhilosophical InterpretationandAnalysis 13 JonathanLaveryandLouisGroarke Part I: PlatonicPreludes Plato’sUseof theDialogueForm: Skepticismand Insemination 41 KennethDorter SomeCautionaryRemarks onPlatonicDialogue 53 David Gallop Part II:BeyondDialogue TheLifeofAesop: RhetoricandthePhilosophicalLife 63 LeoGroarke FromParmenidesto Anselm:PhilosophyasPrayer 77 KevinCorrigan ACompilationof Arguments:TheSkeptic’sMedicineChest 90 GlenKoehn Aristotlethrough theLookingGlass:AquinasasaHistorian ofPhilosophy 104 J. L.A.West Aquinas’sDisputationalFormat andtheCommunityof Philosophy 115 JillLeBlancandJonathanLavery 7 .................17525$ CNTS 04-19-1013:42:04 PS PAGE7 8 CONTENTS Machiavelli’sPrince:TheSpeculumPrincipisGenreTurned UpsideDown 126 JosephKhoury ARhapsodyVoidofOrderorMethod:Mandeville’sTheFable oftheBees 142 JenniferWelchman WhyNietzscheTries toKillSocratesin TheBirthofTragedy 155 LouisGroarke The Lecturesof J.L. Austin:Doing SensibleThingswith Words 170 PaulGroarke Speculatingabout WeirdWorlds:PhilosophyasScience Fiction 188 JosephNovak Genealogy,Narrative,andCollectiveSelf-Examinationin DisciplineandPunish 201 PaulGroarke PartIII:Epilogue The Ethicsof Stylein PhilosophicalDiscourse 219 BerelLang Bibliography 235 NotesonContributors 249 Index 253 .................17525$ CNTS 04-19-1013:42:05 PS PAGE8 Preface L ITERARY FORM, PHILOSOPHICAL CONTENT: HISTORICAL STUDIES OF PHILO- sophicalGenresaimsatawideaudienceandisintendedtobeservice- able for undergraduate and graduate students, while making a sub- stantive contribution to scholarly research. It is difficult to serve all thesemastersinasinglebook,butthisseemsto beaspecialcase. There has been so little research on the plethora of genres that have been used by philosophers that most of the work presented in this book can be described as a beginning—not at square one, but pretty close. Each chapter of Literary Form, Philosophical Content casts fresh light on the work of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Friedrich Nietz- sche, J. L. Austin, and others. Yet, the corners into which we have directed these lights are not so dark that central features are indis- cernible to students reading these authors for the first time. So it does seem possible to speak to professors and their students at the sametime andto presentinnovative researchto specialistswhile in- structing students and generalists. Still, we do not expect students andresearcherstohavethesameexperienceinreadingthebookor thateveryonewill readit inexactlythe sameway. Specialistsmaybeconfidentthatourauthorsarefamiliarwithex- isting scholarly work on the subject of their respective chapters. Afterall,researchontheliteraryformsofphilosophyisnotsoinno- vativethatcontributorscanturntheirbacksonexistingscholarship. Indeed, existing scholarly debates are always in the background of our chapters, even as the focus remains concentrated on the pri- mary sources. Specialists will find something original in every chap- ter. Scholars whose interest lies in the area broadly defined as intellectualhistory will find itworthwhileto read the bookin itsen- tirety. We hope that students will appreciate our efforts to make the book accessible. Each chapter is modest in length, and neither the analysis nor the interpretation depends on any special theoretical apparatus or esoteric school of interpretation. Each contribution is a reliable guide to the primary sources and the genres represented by our selected texts. Senior undergraduates and graduate students 9 .................17525$ PREF 04-19-1013:42:07 PS PAGE9 10 PREFACE willfindhereahistoricalsurveyofauthorsandtextsthatcanberead coverto cover,andjunior undergraduateswill find individualchap- ters to be illuminating introductions to particular texts, philoso- phers, andgenres. Advancedscholars,intheircapacityasteachers,aswellasstudents may find that their interests often converge. In a number of cases part of what distinguishes the philosophical genre examined is its pedagogical potential. Plato’s dialogues, Aquinas’s commentaries, the disputatio format of Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, Machiavelli’s Prince,andAustin’slecturesareeither primarilyorpartlyshapedby apedagogicalpurpose.Theaccountscontainedinthisbookexplore howan author’schoiceofgenrehelpstoaccomplishthispurpose. Theeditorswouldliketo thanktheCanadianPhilosophicalAsso- ciation for hosting a panel on genres of philosophy as part of their conference at the University of Toronto in 2002—at which some of ourcontributors firstpresentedchaptersof thisbook.Wealsomust thank the individual contributors for their patience and dedication duringthepreparationofthemanuscript.WearegratefultoWilfrid Laurier University for financially supporting this project at various stages, in particular the work of Evan Habkirk, Peter Aloussis, and Dr. Darryl Murphy. Evan prepared the first complete draft of the manuscript.Peterpreparedthebibliographyandcompletedseveral otherimportanttasks.Darryldidsomeinitialworkonthefinaldraft while completing his doctoral dissertation; a timely and much ap- preciated book preparation grant from the Wilfrid Laurier Univer- sity Research Office supported this work. A second grant from the WLUResearchOfficepaidforthepreparationofanindex.Theedi- tors would like to especially thank Marcy Baker of the St. Francis Xavier University Philosophy Department who, at various stages of production,assistedus ablyandcheerfully. Finally,wewishtoexpressoursinceregratitudetoFairleighDick- insonUniversity Pressand the Associated UniversityPresses fordili- gentlyshepherdingthisbookthroughthefinalstagesofproduction, especially Harry Keyishian, the Director at FDUP, and our copy edi- tor,Margaret Roeske. .................17525$ PREF 04-19-1013:42:08 PS PAGE10
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