Philosophy and Literature: A Book of Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815391050)

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.

Author: M. W. Rowe
ISBN-10: 0815391056
ISBN-13: 9780815391050
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2017
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.41lbs