Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical TheoryNorthwestern University Press, 1999 M07 21 - 299 páginas Recently, a number of Anglo-American philosophers of very different sorts--pragmatists, metaphysicians, philosophers of language, philosophers of law, moral philosophers—have taken a reflective rather than merely recreational interest in literature. Does this literary turn mean that philosophy is coming to an end or merely down to earth? In this collection of essays, one of the most insightful of contemporary literary theorists investigates the intersection of literature and philosophy, analyzing the emerging preferences for practice over theory, particulars over universals, events over structures, inhabitants over spectators, an ethics of responsibility over a morality of rules, and a desire for intimacy with the world instead of simply a disengaged knowledge of it. |
Contenido
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The Limits of Narrative | 69 |
Poetry and Philosophy inside the Everyday World | 131 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 275 |
Name Index | 291 |
Subject Index | 297 |
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Página 154 - What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street, the news of the boat, the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body...
Página 104 - Could a historiographer drive on his history, as a muleteer drives on his mule, — straight forward; for instance, from Rome all the way to Loretto, without ever once turning his head aside either to the right hand or to the left, — he might venture to foretell you to an hour when he should get to his journey's end; but the thing is, morally speaking, impossible...
Página 89 - I think that in early Byzantium, maybe never before or since in recorded history, religious, aesthetic and practical life were one, that architect and artificers— though not, it may be, poets, for language had been the instrument of controversy and must have grown abstract— spoke to the multitude and the few alike.
Página 37 - The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely 'understandable
Página 175 - His poems are not of the second part of life. They do not make the visible a little hard To see nor, reverberating, eke out the mind On peculiar horns, themselves eked out By the spontaneous particulars of sound. We do not say ourselves like that in poems. We say ourselves in syllables that rise From the floor, rising in speech we do not speak.
Página 7 - As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries — not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer.
Página 169 - And it has to find what will suffice. It has To construct a new stage. It has to be on that stage And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and With meditation, speak words that in the ear, In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat, Exactly, that which it wants to hear...
Página 37 - From this simple cue pragmatism gets her general notion of truth as something essentially bound up with the way in which one moment in our experience may lead us towards other moments which it will be worth while to have been led to.