The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

768 Pages·2018·6.75 MB·English

by  Barry Stocker

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF
PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Edited by Barry Stocker and Michael Mack
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy
and Literature
Barry Stocker • Michael Mack
Editors
The Palgrave
Handbook of
Philosophy and
Literature
Editors
Barry Stocker Michael Mack
Istanbul Technical University Durham University
Istanbul, Turkey Durham, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-54793-4 ISBN 978-1-137-54794-1 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54794-1
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Barry Stocker
Part I Philosophy as Literature 39
2 What Is Philosophical Dialogue? 41
S. Montgomery Ewegen
3 ‘Situating the Essay: Between Philosophy and Literature?’ 61
Michelle Boulous Walker
4 Narrativity in Variation: Merleau-Ponty and Murdoch on
Literary and Philosophical Narratives 81
Niklas Forsberg
5 On Philosophy and Poetry 99
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
6 ‘No One Is the Author of His Life’: Philosophy, Biography,
and Autobiography 123
Christopher Hamilton
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7 Aphorisms and Fragments 143
Guy Elgat
Part II Philosophy of Literature 163
8 Myth 165
Tudor Balinisteanu
9 Epic 185
Michael Weinman
10 Philosophy and Drama 203
Lior Levy
11 Lyric Poetry 221
Mathew Abbott
12 Philosophy of the Novel 241
Barry Stocker
13 Romance 263
Marsha S. Collins
Part III Philosophical Aesthetics 293
14 Analytic Aesthetics 295
Jukka Mikkonen
15 Fictions of Human Development: Renaissance Cognitive
Philosophy and the Romance 315
Isabel Jaén
16 Hermeneutics 341
Hanna Meretoja
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17 Phenomenology 365
Alexander Kozin and Tanja Staehler
18 Language, Ontology, Fiction 385
Frederick Kroon and Alberto Voltolini
19 Deconstruction: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics 407
Simon Morgan Wortham
Part IV Literary Criticism and Theory 427
20 Literature as Theory: Literature and Truths 429
Michael Mack
21 Rhetoric 443
Rosaleen Keefe
22 Feminism and Gender 467
Kimberly J. Stern
23 Psychoanalysis 489
Will Long
24 Postcolonialism 519
Bill Ashcroft
Part V Areas of Work Within Philosophy and Literature 539
25 Law and the Literary Imagination: The Continuing Relevance
of Literature to Modern Legal Scholarship 541
Julia J. A. Shaw
26 Politics and Literature 561
Michael Keren
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27 Thought Experiments at the Edge of Conceptual Breakdown 581
İlhan İnan
28 Ethics and Literature 601
Liesbeth Korthals Altes and Hanna Meretoja
29 Literature and Political Economy 623
Aaron Kitch
30 Religion and Literature: Exegesis, Hermeneutics, Post-Modern
Theories 645
Shira Wolosky
31 Poetry’s Truth of Dialogue 665
Michael Mack
Bibliography 679
Author Index 739
Subject Index 755
Notes on Contributors
Mathew Abbott is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University Australia.
Drawing on modern European and post-Wittgensteinian thought, his research is
concerned with intersections of aesthetics, politics, and ethics. He is the author of
Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy (Edinburgh) and editor of Michael Fried and
Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality (Routledge).
Bill Ashcroft is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of postcolonial
theory, and co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to offer a systematic
examination of the field of postcolonial studies. He is the author and co-author of 17
books and over 180 articles and chapters, variously translated into six languages, and
he is on the editorial boards of ten international journals. His latest work is Utopianism
in Postcolonial Literatures. He teaches at the University of New South Wales (NSW)
and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Tudor Balinisteanu is a Senior Research Fellow in English Literature at University
of Suceava. He is the author of Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats
(Palgrave 2015); Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective Identity
and Anarcho-Syndicalist Traditions (Palgrave 2013); and Narrative, Social Myth, and
Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing: Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke,
Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr (CSP 2009). He also published in a number of UK, Irish,
Canadian, and US journals.
Michelle Boulous Walker lectures in Philosophy at The University of Queensland
in Australia. She is the author of Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution
(Bloomsbury 2017) and Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence (Routledge
1998). She is interested in the intersections of philosophy, literature, and film, and
her research is on laughter.
Marsha S. Collins is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Royster Professor
for Graduate Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She
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frequently writes on romance and other idealizing forms of fiction and is the author
of Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance (Routledge, 2016) among other works.
Guy Elgat is the author of Nietzsche’s Psychology of Ressentiment: Revenge and Justice
in “On the Genealogy of Morals” (Routledge, 2017). He teaches at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago.
S. Montgomery Ewegen is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College,
Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Plato’s Cratylus: The Comedy of Language as
well as numerous articles on Plato, Heidegger, and the intersections of the two.
Niklas Forsberg is an Associate Professor and Head of Research in the Department
of Philosophy at the University of Pardubice. His areas of expertise are placed where
logic and metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics intersect. The central themes of his
research are questions about what carries philosophical conviction and of how our
most fundamental beliefs are to be reconsidered or even expressed and elucidated.
His research topics include philosophy and literature, philosophy of language, Iris
Murdoch, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, philosophical methodology, ordinary
language philosophy, philosophy of love, Søren Kierkegaard, philosophy and film,
moral perfectionism, and Stanley Cavell.
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is the Kurrelmeyer Professor of German at The
Johns Hopkins University. She is author of The Life of Imagination: Revealing and
Making the World (Columbia University Press); Exotic Spaces in German Modernism
(Oxford University Press); The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in
Modern Art and Literature (Penn State University Press); Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the
Subject of Poetic Language (Fordham University Press); and a book of poetry, After the
Palace Burns, which won the Paris Review Prize.
Christopher Hamilton is a Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London. He is
the author of five books, most recently A Philosophy of Tragedy (2016), and numerous
essays and articles. His main academic interests lie at the intersection of philosophy,
literature, and film.
İlhan İnan is a Professor of Philosophy, who took his PhD from the University of
California, Santa Barbara, in 1997, taught at Bogaziçi University for 20 years, and
recently joined the Philosophy Department at Koç University in Istanbul. Most of
his research is within the philosophy of language, specializing on the semantic and
epistemic aspects of our ability to conceptualize and refer to the unknown. He has
published extensively both in English and in Turkish and is the author of The
Philosophy of Curiosity (Routledge, 2012).
Isabel Jaén holds PhDs from Purdue University and the University of Madrid. Her
research focuses on early modern literature and cognitive literary studies, and her
publications include Cognitive Literary Studies (U of Texas P, 2012), Cognitive
Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), and Self, Other,
and Context in Early Modern Spain: Studies in Honor of Howard Mancing (Juan de la
Cuesta, 2017).