Dialectic and narrative

Author(s)

• Flynn, Thomas R.
• Judovitz, Dalia

Bibliographic Information

Dialectic and narrative

edited by Thomas R. Flynn and Dalia Judovitz

（Contemporary studies in philosophy and literature, 3）

State University of New York Press, c1993

• : cloth : acid-free paper
• : pbk. : acid-free paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-367) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Dialectic and narrative reflect the respective inclinations of philosophy and literature as disciplines that fix one another in a Sartrean gaze, admixing envy with suspicion. Ever since Plato and Aristotle distinguished scientific knowledge (episteme) from opinion (doxa) and valued demonstration through formal final causes over emplotment (mythos), the palm has been awarded to dialectic as the proper instrument of rational discourse, the arbiter of coherence, consistency, and ultimately of truth. The matter becomes more complicated when we recognize the various uses of the term "dialectic" in the tradition, some of which complement and even overlap the narrative domain. By confronting these concepts with one another, either de facto or ex professo, the following essays not only raise anew the ancient questions of the identities of philosophy and literature, but do so in the context of recent "postmodern" challenges to their relative autonomy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction I. Philosophy and Literature: Crossing Borders 1. The Philosophy of Genre and the Genre of Philosophy Louis Mackey 2. Helen and the Rape of Narrative: The Politics of Dissuasion James I. Porter II. The Poetic and the Political: Martin Heidegger 3. Two Faces of Heidegger Graeme Nicholson 4. Repositioning Heidegger Herman Rapaport 5. Stevens, Heidegger, and the Dialectics of Abstraction and Empathy in Poetic Language Matthias Konzett 6. Acoustics: Heidegger and Nietzsche on Words and Music Dennis J. Schmidt III. Contesting Modernities 7. Modernity and Postmodernity Fred Dallmayr 8. Secularization and the Disenchantment of the World A. J. Cascardi 9. Modernity and the Misrepresentation of Representation Stephen David Ross 10. Narrative, Dialectic, and Irony in Jameson and White Candace D. Lang IV. Legitimacy and Truth 161 11. Reflections on the Anthropocentric Limits of Scientific Realism: Blumenberg on Myth, Reason, and the Legitimacy of the Modern Age David Ingram 12. Blumenberg's Third Way: Between Habermas and Gadamer Robert M. Wallace 13. History, Art, and Truth: Wellmer's Critique of Adorno Lambert Zuidervaart V. Narrative Fictions: Theaters of Danger 14. Tragic Fiction of Identity and the Narrative Self Dana Rudelic 15. Ethical Ellipsis in Narrative Carol L. Bernstein 16. Dialectics of Experience: Brecht and the Theater of Danger David Halliburton VI. Beyond Dialectics: At the Limits of Formalization 17. At the Limits of Formalization Joseph Arsenault and Tony Brinkley 18. On Fate: Psychoanalysis and the Desire to Know Charles Shepherdson Notes Notes on Contributors Notes on Editors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA22004122
• ISBN:
  • 0791414558
  • 0791414566
• LCCN: 92025668
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 382 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B809.7
  • DC20 : 101
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Dialectic
  • LCSH : Literature -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
  • LCSH : Postmodernism
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07961915