Beyond representation
Subtitle: philosophy and poetic imagination
By: edited by Richard Eldridge.
Contributors: Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
Series: Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521480796
Subjects: Philosophy in literature
Description: The essays in this volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematized.

The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their subsequent literary and philosophical inheritors and revisers. Their essays offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from representation to poiesis / Richard Eldridge; title: Confession and forgiveness : Hegel's poetics of action / J. M. Bernstein; title: The values of articulation : aesthetics after the aesthetic ideology / Charles Altieri; title: In their own voice : philosophical writings and actual experience / Arthur C. Danto; title: Poetry and truth-conditions / Samuel Fleischacker; title: Fractal contours : chaos and system in the Romantic fragment / Azade Seyhan; title: The mind's horizon / Stanley Bates; title: Kant, Hölderlin, and the experience of longing / Richard Eldridge; title: Wordsworth and the reception of poetry / Michael Fischer; title: Self-consciousness, social guilt and romantic poetry : Coleridge's ancient mariner and Wordsworth's old pedlar / Kenneth R. Johnston; title: Her blood and his mirror : Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray, and the female self / Christine Battersby; title: Scene : an exchange of letters / Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.