Literature and Philosophy

DAVID RUDRUM teaches at London Metropolitan University, UK. He has published numerous articles on the relationship between literature, theory and philosophy.

• Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Rudrum PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY First Lessons: Giles Deleuze and The Concept of Literature; A.Larson 'The Absence of Origin': Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy; D.Tubridy PART II: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary; B.Vescio Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the 'Descent into Ourselves'; G.L.Hagberg What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You; B.Bourbon PART III: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf; R.Strehle The Poetics of Thinking; J.A.Gosetti-Ferencei Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe; R.J.Lane PART IV: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY: THE QUESTION OF ETHICS Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy; M.C.Rawlinson Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?; R.Read PART V: READING PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE Who is Speaking? - Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre, M.Eskin Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism; A.Benjamin Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear and the Plain Style; J.Rée Philosophy's Metaphors: Dennett, Midgely and Derrida; R.Eaglestone Hearing Voices: A Dialogical Reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ; D.Rudrum PART VI: CONCLUSION: APPROACHING THE END No Matter: Aesthetic Theory and the Self-Annihilating Artwork; J.Cohen Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism; S.Malpas Index

'A superb collection. The essays are original, provocative interventions across a range of live debates. Combined with the editor's concise essays on the distinct traditions and subfields, they provide readers with a lucid entry into the complex relations between philosophy and literature, demonstrating anew how neither can do without the other. A must for students and scholars alike.' - Dr. Michael John Kooy, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK