The Philosophical Reflection of Man in Literature: Selected Papers from Several Conferences Held by the International Society for Phenomenology and Literature in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introductory Essay: Poetica Nova....Pages 1-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
The Present Tide of Pessimism in Philosophy and Letters: Agonistic Literature and Cervantes’ Message....Pages 97-124
Is the Battle with Alienation the Raison D’être of Twentieth-Century Protagonists?....Pages 125-136
Nihilism, Reason, and Death: Reflections on John Barth’s floating Opera ....Pages 137-151
Beckett, Philosophy, and the Self....Pages 153-160
Protagonist, Reader, and the Author’s Commitment....Pages 161-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Nature and Personal Destiny: A Turning Point in the Enterprise of Human Self-Responsibility....Pages 173-184
 Amor Fati and the Will to Power in Nietzsche....Pages 185-202
Jorge Luis Borges—Lover of Labyrinths: A Heideggerian Critique....Pages 203-211
Laughter in the Cathedral: Religious Affirmation and Ridicule in the Writings of D. H. Lawrence....Pages 213-244
The Enigmatic Child in Literature....Pages 245-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Homecoming in Heidegger and Hebel....Pages 267-275
Pastoral Paradoxes....Pages 277-289
Reality and Truth in La Comédie Humaine ....Pages 291-299
Man and Nature: Does the Husserlian Analysis of Pre-Predicative Experience Shed Light on the Emergence of Nature in the Work of Art?....Pages 301-311
The Language of the Gay Science ....Pages 313-319
Santayana on Beauty....Pages 321-326
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Heroism and Creativity in Literature: Some Ethical and Aesthetic Aspects....Pages 329-351
Permutation and Meaning: A Heideggerian Troisième Voie....Pages 353-383
Criticism of Robert Magliola’s Paper....Pages 385-389
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Mythos and Logos in Plato’s Phaedo ....Pages 391-405
Sartre’s Conception of the Reader-Writer Relationship....Pages 407-413
“Souvenir” and “Imagination” in the Works of Rousseau and Nerval....Pages 415-428
Intuitions....Pages 429-441
Eidetic Conception and the Analysis of Meaning in Literature....Pages 443-453
Back Matter....Pages 455-485