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Philosophy as a Literary Art - Making Things Up (Hardcover)
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Philosophy as a Literary Art - Making Things Up (Hardcover)
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Despite philosophers' growing scholarly interest in the relation
between philosophy and literature in general, over the last few
decades comparatively few studies have been published dealing more
narrowly with the literary aspects of philosophical texts. The
relationship between philosophy and literature is too often taken
to be literature as philosophy and very rarely philosophy as
literature. It is the dissatisfaction with this one-sidedness that
lies at the heart of the present volume. Above all, a consideration
of what philosophers do from a literary perspective would be an
exercise in self-examination. Philosophy has nothing to lose by
engaging in a serious process of literary self-analysis. On the
contrary, such an exercise would most likely make it more
interesting, more sophisticated, stronger, more playful and
especially more self-reflexive. By not moving in this direction,
philosophy places itself in the position of not following what has
been deemed, since Socrates at least, the worthiest of all
philosophical ideals: self-knowledge. This book was originally
published as a special issue of The European Legacy.
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