The Cambridge introduction to literature and philosophy /

Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form. And yet, from ancient times to the present, they have often sharply diverged, both in their approach to these questions and in their relationship to one another. Moreover, the vast differences among indivi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511862441
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Questions of Truth and Knowledge: 1. The 'ancient quarrel'; 2. Action, imitations, conventions of make-believe; 3. The single observer standpoint and its limits; 4. Contingency, irony, edification: changing the conversation about truth; Part II. Questions of Value: 5. Values, contingencies, conflicts; 6. Reason and autonomy, imagination and feeling; 7. Forces and the will; 8. Opacity; Part III. Questions of Form: 9. Ubiquitous form; 10. Linguistic turns; 11. Form, narrative, novel; 12. Forms and fragments; Afterword: limits.