Review of the hardback: 'A greater measure of agreement will only be possible when more books of the quality of Beyond Representation have painted their grey on grey, and reshaped our understanding of the ethics and aesthetics of Romanticism.' John Kerrigan, The Times Literary Supplement
The essays in this 1996 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 problematised? The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their 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.
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1. Introduction: from representation to poiesis Richard Eldridge; 2. Confession and forgiveness: Hegel's poetics of action J. M. Bernstein; 3. The values of articulation: aesthetics after the aesthetic ideology Charles Altieri; 4. In their own voice: philosophical writing and actual experience Arthur C. Danto; 5. Poetry and truth-conditions Samuel Fleischaker; 6. Fractal contours: chaos and system in the Romantic fragment Azade Seyhan; 7. The mind's horizon Stanley Bates; 8. Kant, Hölderlin, and the experience of longing Richard Eldridge; 9. Wordsworth and the reception of poetry Michael Fischer; 10. Self-consciousness, social guilt, and Romantic poetry: Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Old Pedlar Kenneth R. Johnston; 11. Her blood and his mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray and the female self Christine Battersby; 12. Scene: an exchange of letters Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Explores the migration of traditional philosophical problems into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods.
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ISBN
9780521175005
Published
2011-03-03
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Weight
430 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Number of pages
320
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