Companion to the Philosophy of Literature

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and has in recent years held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia and a visiting fellowship at Cambridge University. He has published widely in philosophical and literary contexts; his recent books include Art and Ethical Criticism (Blackwell, 2008) and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (2008). He is joint editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. Walter Jost is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman (1989) and Rhetorical Investigations (2004), and has edited or co-edited six previous books, including (with Wendy Olmsted) A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell, 2004).

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Garry L. Hagberg and Walter JostPart I Relations between Philosophy and Literature 51 Philosophy as Literature and More than Literature 7Richard Shusterman2 Philosophy and Literature: Friends of the Earth? 22Roger A. Shiner3 Philosophy and Literature – and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia 38Walter Jost4 Philosophy and/as/of Literature 52Arthur C. DantoPart II Emotional Engagement and the Experience of Reading 695 Emotion and the Understanding of Narrative 71Jenefer Robinson6 Feeling Fictions 93Roger Scruton7 The Experience of Reading 106Peter Kivy8 Self-Defining Reading: Literature and the Constitution of Personhood 120Garry L. HagbergPart III Philosophy, Tragedy, and Literary Form 1599 Tragedy and Philosophy 161Anthony J. Cascardi10 Iago’s Elenchus: Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic Inheritance 174M. W. Rowe11 Catharsis 193Jonathan Lear12 Passion, Counter-Passion, Catharsis: Flaubert (and Beckett) on Feeling Nothing 218Joshua LandyPart IV Literature and the Moral Life 23913 Perceptive Equilibrium: Literary Theory and Ethical Theory 241Martha C. Nussbaum14 Henry James, Moral Philosophers, Moralism 268Cora Diamond15 Literature and the Idea of Morality 285Eileen John16 Styles of Self-Absorption 300Daniel BrudneyPart V Narrative and the Question of Literary Truth 32917 Narration, Imitation, and Point of View 331Gregory Currie18 How and What We Can Learn from Fiction 350Mitchell Green19 Literature and Truth 367Peter Lamarque20 Truth in Poetry: Particulars and Universals 385Richard EldridgePart VI Intention and Biography in Criticism 39921 Authorial Intention and the Varieties of Intentionalism 401Paisley Livingston22 Art as Techne, or, The Intentional Fallacy and the Unfinished Project of Formalism 420Henry Staten23 Biography in Literary Criticism 436Stein Haugom Olsen24 Getting Inside Heisenberg’s Head 453Ray MonkPart VII On Literary Language 46525 Wittgenstein and Literary Language 467Jon Cook and Rupert Read26 Exemplification and Expression 491Charles Altieri27 At Play in the Fields of Metaphor 507Ted Cohen28 Macbeth Appalled 521Stanley CavellIndex 541