The Palgrave handbook of philosophy and literature / [electronic resource] Edited by Barry Stocker; Michael Mack.

Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction; Part One: Philosophy as Literature; Dialogue; Essays; Narrative; Poetry; Autobiography and Biography; Fragments and Aphorisms; Part Two: Philosophy of Literature; Myth; Epic; Drama; Lyric Poetry; The Novel; Romance; Part Three: Philosophical Aesthetics; Analytic Aesthetics; Cognitive Philosophy; Hermeneutics; Phenomenology; Language, Ontology, Fiction; Deconstruction; Part Four: Literary Criticism and Theory; Literature as Theory; Rhetoric; Feminism and Gender; Psychoanalysis; Postcolonialism Part Five: Areas of Work Within Philosophy and LiteratureLaw and Literature; Politics and Literature; Philosophical Fictions and Thought Experiments; Ethics and Literature; Political Economy and Literature; Literature and Religion; Poetry's Truth of Dialogue; Note on Suggested Reading; Bibliography; Part I: Philosophy as Literature; 2: What Is Philosophical Dialogue?; Bibliography; 3: 'Situating the Essay: Between Philosophy and Literature?'; Historical Notes; Can There Be a 'Theory' of the Essay?; The 'Form' of the Essay; The Essay as the Privileged Form of Philosophy; References 4: Narrativity in Variation: Merleau-Ponty and Murdoch on Literary and Philosophical NarrativesIntroduction (Philosophy Claims, Literature Illustrates); Fictional Narratives Have Dramatic Structures, Philosophical One's Argumentative; Philosophical Language, Literary Language, Ordinary Language; The Unnaturalness of Philosophy; Returning Philosophy Home: Narrative Surroundings; Bibliography; 5: On Philosophy and Poetry; From the 'Ancient Quarrel' to Philosophical Affirmations of Poetry; Poetry as Revealing or Founding of Truth and the Generative Poetic Imagination; Bibliography 6: 'No One Is the Author of His Life': Philosophy, Biography, and AutobiographyBibliography; 7: Aphorisms and Fragments; Introduction; The Question of Classification; The Philosophy of the Aphorism; The Aphoristic/Fragmentary Form as a Means to Convey Philosophical Views; The Aphoristic/Fragmentary Form as a Means to Convey Meta-philosophical Views; Can Aphorisms/Fragments Be Organized into a System?; The Philosophical Value of the Aphorism; References; Works by Others; For Further Reading; Part II: Philosophy of Literature; 8: Myth; References; 9: Epic Plato and the Other Poets: The Roots of the Uneasy Entwinement of Philosophy and EpicDante and the Ancients: Formal Experimentation and Doctrinal Deviance; The "Ancient Quarrel" Today: What's at Stake in the Philosophical Reception of J.M. Coetzee; References; 10: Philosophy and Drama; Introduction: What Is Drama?; Writing for Performance; Recipes and Song Lyrics as Models for Drama's Authority; Writing for an Audience; Bibliography; 11: Lyric Poetry; Poetry and Paraphrase; Poetic Thinking; Heidegger; Bibliography; 12: Philosophy of the Novel; References; 13: Romance

This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and philosophy as literature, its twenty-nine chapters plus substantial Introduction and Afterword examine the ways in which philosophy and literature depend on each other and interact, while also contrasting with each other in that they necessarily exclude or incorporate each other. This book establishes an enduring framework for structuring the broad themes defining the relations between philosophy and literature and organising the main topics in the field. Key Features " Structured in five parts addressing philosophy as literature, philosophy of literature, philosophical aesthetics, literary criticism and theory, and main areas of work within philosophy and literature " An Introduction setting out the main concerns of the field through discussion of the major themes along with the individual topics " An Afterword looking at the interactions between philosophy and literature through itself enacting philosophical and literary writing while examining the question of how they can be brought together The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature is an essential resource for scholars, researchers and advanced students in philosophy of literature, philosophy as literature, literary theory, literature as philosophy, and the philosophical aesthetics of literature. It is an ideal volume for researchers, advanced students and scholars in philosophy, literary studies, philosophy and literature, cultural studies, classical studies and other related fields