Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521480795 ISBN 13: 9780521480796

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The essays in this volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. In a wide-ranging critical and philosophical discussion, the contributors offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.

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The essays in this volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematized. The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their subsequent literary and philosophical inheritors and revisers. Their essays offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.

Review:

"With sophistication and clarity, these 12 essays show how works of philosophy and of literature have come to share much....In every respect--including the quality of the editing and production--this book is superior....Strongly recommended for all academic libraries." Choice

...one can get a fine and full overview from Richard Eldridge's excellent introduction, which includes a summary of every paper." Roger Seamon, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521480795
• ISBN 13: 9780521480796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Eldridge Richard