Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

Bartholomew Ryan is a philosophy researcher, musician, and coordinator of CultureLab at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon.Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher based in Lisbon, where he is currently researching philosophy and ecology at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon.Antonio Cardiello is a philosophy postdoctoral fellow and member of CultureLab at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon.

• Introduction. An Encounter between the Poet and the Philosopherby Bartholomew RyanExordium by Fernando Pessoa & Co.Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiroby Álvaro de Campos Essays on Fernando Pessoa and PhilosophySpiritual Traditions1. Antonio Cardiello – Fernando Pessoa’s Vision of Neopaganism as Life’s Supreme Art2. Paulo Borges – Fernando Pessoa, Daoism and the Gap: Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination3. Jonardon Ganeri – Pessoa’s Imaginary India4. Fabrizio Boscaglia – Pessoa and Islamic PhilosophyMetaphysics and Post-Metaphysics5. João Constâncio – Nihilism and on Being Nothing in ‘The Tobacco Shop’6. Pedro Duarte – Pessoa and Time7. Benedetta Zavatta – Pessoa and American Transcendentalism8. José Gil – Bernardo Soares’ Becoming-LandscapePhilosophies of Selfhood9. Bartholomew Ryan – Voicing Vacillation, Logos and Masks of the Self: Mirroring Kierkegaard and Pessoa10. Maria Filomena Molder – The Difference between Othering On

If, indeed, ‘there is something in literature that is out of reach of the philosopher,’ innumerable readers have yet striven to bridge such a gap. Never more timely nor expertly confronted than here, comes a perceptive international grappling with that very dangerous binary of separation which suffuses the intellectual appeal of Pessoa’s own texts: ‘Countless lives inhabit us’ . . . and countless genres, too.