Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.
This volume consists of a series of essays about apocalypticism in a number of literary fields, ranging from Romanticism to contemporary American fict..
The book is different from other work in the philosophy of literature to the extent that it aims to retool Jürgen Habermas' theory of communicative ac..
This book offers a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United St..
First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through t..
First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through t..
In this book, first published in 1989, Mary Bittner Wiseman interprets Roland Barthes’s experiments as efforts to reposition the human subject with re..
Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of decons..
Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking thinkers and novelists of recent ..
J.M. Coetzee has new things to say about this relation between the ‘real’ and ‘fictions of the real’, and the central problems he deals with in his fi..
This book explores the role of philosophy in the works of Cormac McCarthy, significantly expanding the scope of philosophical inquiry into his writing..
This book reads Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. It exhibits how philosophical questions re..
This book offers a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United St..