It is commonplace to regard many great works of literature-poems,
dramas, works of fiction-as in some sense philosophical, yet ever
since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract
theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete
particulars that occurs in poetry and fiction. Beyond Words:
Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable elaborates on and addresses
this Platonic tension, asking in what sense, if any, literature in
the form of poetry, drama, short stories, and novels can contribute
significantly to our philosophical understanding. Timothy Cleveland
suggests there is something in certain poems, novels, and stories
that makes them especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding
our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise
unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy,
showing us something that a theoretical-scientific or
philosophical-discourse cannot literally say.
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