Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction — Literature and Philosophy: The Contemporary Interface....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-12
First Lessons: Gilles Deleuze and the Concept of Literature....Pages 13-23
‘The Absence of Origin’: Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy....Pages 24-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-40
The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary....Pages 41-52
Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the Descent into Ourselves....Pages 53-65
What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You?....Pages 66-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-80
A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf....Pages 81-91
The Poetics of Thinking....Pages 92-113
Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin’s Goethe....Pages 114-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-128
Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy....Pages 129-141
Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?....Pages 142-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-162
Who is Speaking? Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre....Pages 163-169
Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism....Pages 170-178
Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear, and the Plain Style....Pages 179-193
Philosophy’s Metaphors: Dennett, Midgley, and Derrida....Pages 194-203
Hearing Voices: A Dialogical Reading of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations ....Pages 204-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-220
No Matter: Aesthetic Theory and the Self-annihilating Artwork....Pages 221-230
Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism....Pages 231-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-246