Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

Countless Lives Inhabit Us

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvBartholomew Ryan,Giovanbattista Tusa,Antonio Cardiello

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This pioneering volume explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) and his relationship to philosophy. On the one hand, this book reveals Pessoa’s serious knowledge of philosophy and playful philosophical explorations and how he has the gift of synthesizing, appropriating, and subverting complex ideas into his art; and, on the other hand, the chapters shed new light on central aspects and problems of philosophy through the prism of Pessoa’s diverse writings. The volume includes sixteen new essays from an international group of scholars, analyzing Pessoa’s multifaceted poetic work alongside philosophical themes and movements, from conceptions of time, ancient and modern aesthetics, philosophy of language, transcendentalism, immanence, and nihilism; to Islamic philosophy, Indian philosophy, Daoism, neo-paganism, and the philosophy of the self. The breadth of his work provides a springboard for new thinking on the aesthetic and the spiritual, the logic of value and capitalist modernity, and ecological thought and postmodernism. The volume also includes the most complete English translation of Pessoa's text (written by his heteronym Álvaro de Campos) called "Notes for the Memory of my Master Caeiro."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-08-22
Mått153 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt608 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Aesthetic Research
Antal sidor416
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538147511

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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.