Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical TheoryNorthwestern University Press, 1999 M07 21 - 299 pages Recently, a number of Anglo-American philosophers of very different sorts--pragmatists, metaphysicians, philosophers of language, philosophers of law, moral philosophers—have taken a reflective rather than merely recreational interest in literature. Does this literary turn mean that philosophy is coming to an end or merely down to earth? In this collection of essays, one of the most insightful of contemporary literary theorists investigates the intersection of literature and philosophy, analyzing the emerging preferences for practice over theory, particulars over universals, events over structures, inhabitants over spectators, an ethics of responsibility over a morality of rules, and a desire for intimacy with the world instead of simply a disengaged knowledge of it. |
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The Limits of Narrative | 69 |
Poetry and Philosophy inside the Everyday World | 131 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 275 |
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