The Philosophy of Literature. Classics and Contemporary Readings : An Anthology, edited by Eileen John and Dominic McIver Lopes, Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies, 2003. This anthology contains ...

Blending fiction and philosophy is more akin to chemistry than art: It involves creating a synthetic element that rarely occurs in nature in stable form. Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Ursula Le ...

WP4 focuses on literary studies and the philosophy of literature as routes to meliorist philosophy of suffering. We take seriously the idea that literature can articulate philosophical issues and ...

Through such writers as Beckett, Shaw and Wilde, Irish literature cannot be accused of ignoring philosophy, but very often it features as the butt of a joke rather than the central plot. Picture a ...

For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the ...

Do gender norms enforce a divide between literature and philosophy? Literature is seen as partial and feminine, whereas philosophy is associated with objectivity and masculinity. It’s time to put this ...

It would be natural to assume from the title of Terry Eagleton's new book that it might, in some way, be applying to literature Alain Badiou's idea of the event – the rupture in the nature of being ...

Martha Nussbaum will probably not win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year. There are politics to the prize, and the internet’s consensus is that the winner will not come from a North American or ...

Representing nearly half of all students, the College of Arts and Science (CAS) is Miami University's largest division and the centerpiece of liberal arts — the wide range of subjects in the natural ...