Philosophy and Literature, Fall 2005

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 aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.

Volume 29, Number 2, Fall 2005

ARTICLES:

Lewis, Peter B., Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare

Seamon, Roger, Why Poe? Why Not Peirce?

Gillett, Grant, 1950-
Hankey, Robin, 1944-, Oedipus the King: Temperament, Character, and Virtue

Carroll, Joseph, Aestheticism, Homoeroticism, and Christian Guilt in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Conolly, Oliver, Pleasure and Pain in Literature

Simpson, M. Carleton, Participation and Immersion in Walton and Calvino

Coble, Kelly, Authenticity in Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities

Ryan, Katy, Horizons of Grace: Marilynne Robinson and Simone Weil

Hansen, Jennifer, 1970-, Written on the Body, Written by the Senses

Ramal, Randy, Love, Self-Deception, and the Moral "Must"

Mendieta, Eduardo, Surviving American Culture: On Chuck Palahniuk

SYMPOSIUM : WITTGENSTEIN, SOLITUDE, AND THE HUMAN VOICE

Rudrum, David, Living Alone: Solipsism in Heart of Darkness

Bourbon, Brett, 1963-, Wittgenstein's Preface

Sparti, Davide, Let Us Be Human: Primo Levi and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Goldblatt, David, 1941-, Cavellian Conversation and the Life of Art

NOTES AND FRAGMENTS

Goodheart, Eugene, Is History a Science?

Franke, William, Varieties and Valences of Unsayability

REVIEWS

Kemp, Gary, 1960 Oct. 15-, Philosophy as Fiction: Self, Deception, and Knowledge in Proust (review)

Schreiner, Christopher S., Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (review)

McBride, Tom, 1945-, Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (review)