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.
Volume 31, Number 1, April 2007
CONTENTS:
Articles:
Monk, Ray, This Fictitious Life: Virginia Woolf on Biography, Reality, and Character
Skidelsky, Edward, The Strange Death of British Idealism
Lennon, Thomas M., Proust and the Phenomenology of Memory
Bøyum, Steinar, Philosophical Allegories in Rousseau
May, Leila Silvana, 1958-, Language-Games and Nonsense: Wittgenstein's Reflection in Carroll's Looking-Glass
Stempel, Daniel, Fear and Loathing in Academe: Gonzo "Scholarship" and the War Against Tourism
Conolly, Oliver.
Haydar, Bashar, Literature, Knowledge, and Value
Notes and Fragments:
Miyasaki, Donovan, Against the Moral Appraisal of Interrogative Artworks: Wayne Booth and the Case of Huck Finn
Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare, Virtue Ethics
Melchionne, Kevin, Why Artists Starve
Downey, James, A Fallacy in the Intentional Fallacy
Gilead, Amihud, Why Not Kill a Mandarin?: An Exchage
Landau, Iddo, 1958-, Iddo Landau responds
Critical Discussions:
Pinker, Steven, 1954-, Toward a Consilient Study of Literature
Bauerlein, Mark, The Resistance to Theory and the Resistance to Evidence
Zunshine, Lisa, Fiction and Theory of Mind: An Exchange
Boyd, Brian, 1952-, Brian Boyd responds:
Reviews:
Duran, Jane. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, and: Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher (review)
Henry, Patrick (Patrick Gerard), Crises of Memory and the Second World War (review)
Fleming, Richard, Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism, and: Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein (review)