Tragic thoughts at the end of philosophy : language, literature, and ethical theory

Author(s)

• Bruns, Gerald L.

Bibliographic Information

Tragic thoughts at the end of philosophy : language, literature, and ethical theory

Gerald L. Bruns

（Rethinking theory）

Northwestern University Press, 1999

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-289) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Bruns, perhaps one of most insightful of contemporary literary theorists, investigates the recent phenomenon of philosophers taking an interest in literature and literary theory. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and literature are internal to one another's histories, starting with Plato's ""Republic"", Bruns examines diverse thinkers and topics such as Stanley Cavell on Shakespeare, Donald Davidson on James Joyce and Richard Rorty on the Poetizing of culture. The book offers a view of what happens when philosophers begin looking at the world from the ground level - that is, as inhabitants, rather than as disengaged observers.

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Details

• NCID: BA70697493
• ISBN:
  • 0810116758
• LCCN: 99021879
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Evanston, Ill.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 299 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN49
  • DC21 : 801
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Literature -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Literature and morals
  • LCSH : Tragic, The
  • LCSH : Ethics
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20980743