Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism  [electronic resource] /
Falcato, Ana.editor.
Cardiello, Antonio.editor.
Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both disciplines is a self-conscious reflection on possible modes of writing philosophy today, and a systematic comparison with what happened in literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The volume is divided into six sections, where internationally renowned scholars discuss such pressing topics as the role of an unreliable narrator in a major philosophical treatise, the different mediums of art-production and how these impact on our perception of the Work itself, the role of narrative in animal ethics and the filmic adaption of a Modernist classic. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction; Ana Falcato and Antonio Cardiello -- Part I. Writing Philosophy -- 2. Habit, Labour, Need and Desire; Michael Levenson -- 3. Wittgenstein as unreliable narrator/unreliable author; Rupert Read -- 4. Embodied Ghosts; Ana Falcato -- Part II. Language and Contents -- 5.The Medium Itself; Garry Hagberg -- 6.Encountering the Alien; Tanja Staehler and Alexander Kozin -- 7. “Stories to Meditate on; Alice Crary -- Part III. Modern Topics -- 8. “Thought in American and for the Americans”; Laura Maria Lojo-Rodriguez -- 9. “But she loved her roses (didn’t that help the Armenians?)”; Katerina Kitsi-Mitako -- 10.Virginia Woolf and The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002); María José Gamez-Fuentes and Rebeca Maseda García. -- Part IV. Historical Perspectives -- 11. Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money without Narrative Qualities; Mathias Nilges -- 12. Marianne Moore and the Logic of ‘Inner Sensuousness’; Charles Altieri -- 13. Intimidated Thought; Michael D’Arcy -- 14. A Quotation from Seneca is Missing; Jerónimo Pizarro -- Part V. Dystopias of the Self -- 15. The Well is not the World; Stephen Mulhall -- 16. Pictorial Decorum; Jonathan Gilmore -- 17. “Navegar é preciso; Viver não é preciso”; Bartholomew Ryan -- Index.
Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both disciplines is a self-conscious reflection on possible modes of writing philosophy today, and a systematic comparison with what happened in literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The volume is divided into six sections, where internationally renowned scholars discuss such pressing topics as the role of an unreliable narrator in a major philosophical treatise, the different mediums of art-production and how these impact on our perception of the Work itself, the role of narrative in animal ethics and the filmic adaption of a Modernist classic. .
Aesthetics.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Aesthetics.
Contemporary Literature.