Literary Form, Philosophical Content
Author: Jonathan Allen Lavery
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0838642608
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The Philosophy of Literary Form
Author: Kenneth Burke
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974-08-27
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780520024830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProbes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems.
The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1472507932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing, Jon Stewart argues that there is a close relation between content and form in philosophical writing. While this might seem obvious at first glance, it is overlooked in the current climate of Anglophone academic philosophy, which, Stewart contends, accepts only a single genre as proper for philosophical expression. Stewart demonstrates the uniformity of today's philosophical writing by contrasting it with that of the past. Taking specific texts from the history of philosophy and literature as case studies, Stewart shows how the use of genres like dialogues, plays and short stories were an entirely suitable and effective means of presenting and arguing for philosophical positions given the concrete historical and cultural contexts in which they appeared. Now, Stewart argues, the prevailing intolerance means that the same texts are dismissed as unphilosophical merely due to their form, although their content is, in fact, profoundly philosophical. The book's challenge to current conventions of philosophical is provocative and timely, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, literature and history.
The Philosophy of Literary Form
Author: Kenneth Burke
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974-08-27
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0520024834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProbes the nature of linguistic or symbolic action as it relates to specific novels, plays, and poems.
Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms
Author: Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-08-01
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0253042550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToo often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected work consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval period, when new genres and forms of written expression were flourishing in the wake of renewed interest in ancient philosophy. Many medieval Jewish philosophers were highly accomplished poets, for example, and made conscious efforts to write in a poetic style. This volume turns attention to the connections that medieval Jewish thinkers made between the literary, the exegetical, the philosophical, and the mystical to shed light on the creativity and diversity of medieval thought. As they broaden the scope of what counts as medieval Jewish philosophy, the essays collected here consider questions about how an argument is formed, how text is put into the service of philosophy, and the social and intellectual environment in which philosophical texts were produced.
The Philosophy of Literature
Author: Peter Lamarque
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-08-11
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 140512198X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy exploring central issues in the philosophy of literature, illustrated by a wide range of novels, poems, and plays, Philosophy of Literature gets to the heart of why literature matters to us and sheds new light on the nature and interpretation of literary works. Provides a comprehensive study, along with original insights, into the philosophy of literature Develops a unique point of view - from one of the field's leading exponents Offers examples of key issues using excerpts from well-known novels, poems, and plays from different historical periods
Equipment for Living
Author: Kenneth Burke
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Published: 2010-03-10
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 1602353859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEquipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke is the largest collection of Burke's book reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. In these reviews, as he engages famous works of poetry, fiction, criticism, and social science from the early 20th century, Burke demonstrates the prominent methods and interests of his influential career.
Philosophy and the Art of Writing
Author: Berel Lang
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780838750308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Philosophy of Poetry
Author: John Gibson
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0199603677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission, one this collection of original essays will correct. If contemporary philosophy still regards metaphors such as 'Juliet is the sun' as a serious problem, one has an acute sense of how prepared it is to make philosophical and aesthetic sense of poems such W. B. Yeats's 'The Second Coming', Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy', or Paul Celan's 'Todesfuge'. The Philosophy of Poetry brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. In doing so it lays the foundation for a proper philosophy of poetry, setting out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address. Given its breadth of approach, the volume is relevant not only to aesthetics but to all areas of philosophy concerned with meaning, truth, and the communicative and expressive powers of language more generally. Poetry is the last unexplored frontier in contemporary analytic aesthetics, and this volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy.
The Art of Being
Author: Yi-Ping Ong
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-12-10
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0674916107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and the world. At stake are the conditions under which knowledge of existence is possible.
