Anthony J. Cascardi

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Introduction provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781107010543
• ISBN-10: 1107010543
• Artikelnr.: 40456446

Autorenporträt

Anthony J. Cascardi is Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also holds the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish. His many publications across the fields of literature and philosophy include The Subject of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Consequences of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics (2012), which was awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Prize by the Renaissance Society of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Questions of Truth and Knowledge: 1. The 'ancient quarrel'
2. Action, imitations, conventions of make-believe
3. The single observer standpoint and its limits
4. Contingency, irony, edification: changing the conversation about truth
Part II. Questions of Value: 5. Values, contingencies, conflicts
6. Reason and autonomy, imagination and feeling
7. Forces and the will
8. Opacity
Part III. Questions of Form: 9. Ubiquitous form
10. Linguistic turns
11. Form, narrative, novel
12. Forms and fragments
Afterword: limits.