The philosophy of poetry
Gibson
Gibson, JohnContributor
Gibson, JohnEditor
'The Philosophy of Poetry' brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. This volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy, and sets out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The Philosophy of Poetry' brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. This volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy, and sets out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address.
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List of contributors. Introduction, the place of poetry in contemporary aesthetics / John Gibson -- Semantic finegrainedness and poetic value / Peter Lamarque -- The dense and the transparent, reconciling opposites / Ronald de Sousa -- Poetic opacity, how to paint things with words / Jesse Prinz and Eric Mandelbaum -- Unreadable poems and how they mean / Sherri Irvin -- Can an analytic philosopher read poetry? / Simon Blackburn -- The spoken and the written, an ontology of poems / Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro -- Poetry and truth / Roger Scruton -- Poetry's knowing, so what do we know? / Angela Leighton -- Ethical estrangement, pictures, poetry, and epistemic value / Alison Denham -- The inner paradise / Tzachi Zamir -- "To think exactly and courageously," poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann's poetics, and her Bohemia poem / Richard Eldridge -- Index
Poetry
Philosophy
Literature - General
Languages & Literatures