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)