Philosophy and Literature

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anti-theoretical philosophy
Arnold's Work
Arnold’s Work
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Biblical Plot
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Christ Child
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations
classical ethics analysis
Common Language
Crucial Incident
Curtain Edges
Duke's Character
Duke’s Character
Dull Line
Edmund Ironside
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Fen Drainage
General Theoretical View
German Romantic Philosophers
Jew's Harp
Jew’s Harp
Larkin's Poem
Larkin’s Poem
literary cognition
literature and philosophical truth
Man's Oeuvre
Man’s Oeuvre
Mirth Show
Nameable Aspect
Pastel Tones
philosophy of art
poetic abstraction
Schelling's Early Works
Schelling’s Early Works
Socratic Personality
String Scales
Vers De Societe
Weary Weight
Wittgenstein studies
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138357105
  • Weight: 360g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Bringing together eight previously published essays by M. W. Rowe and a substantial new study of Larkin, this book emphasizes the profound affinities between philosophy and literature. Ranging over Plato, Shakespeare, Goethe, Arnold and Wittgenstein, the first five essays explore an anti-theoretical conception of philosophy. This sees the subject as less concerned with abstract arguments that result in theories, than with prompts intended to induce clarity of vision and psychical harmony. On this understanding, philosophy looks more like literature than logic. Conversely, the last four essays argue that literature is centrally concerned with truth and abstract thought, and that literature is therefore a more cognitive and philosophical enterprise than is commonly supposed.
Dr. M.W. Rowe

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