Philosophy as a Literary Art - Making Things Up (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2014
First published:	2015
Editors:	Costica Bradatan
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-79244-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-138-79244-6
Barcode:	9781138792449

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