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Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a "critical philosophy in the condition of modernism". Its most important and original contribution to both disciplines is a self-conscious reflection on possible modes of writing philosophy today, and a systematic comparison with what happened in literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The volume is divided into six sections, where internationally renowned scholars discuss such pressing topics as the role of an unreliable narrator in a major philosophical treatise, the different mediums of art-production and how these impact on our perception of the Work itself, the role of narrative in animal ethics and the filmic adaption of a Modernist classic.
List of contents
Introduction; Ana Falcato and Antonio Cardiello.- Part I. Writing Philosophy.- 2. Habit, Labour, Need and Desire; Michael Levenson.- 3. Wittgenstein as unreliable narrator/unreliable author; Rupert Read.- 4. Embodied Ghosts; Ana Falcato.- Part II. Language and Contents.- 5.The Medium Itself; Garry Hagberg.- 6.Encountering the Alien; Tanja Staehler and Alexander Kozin.- 7. "Stories to Meditate on; Alice Crary.- Part III. Modern Topics.- 8. "Thought in American and for the Americans"; Laura Maria Lojo-Rodriguez.- 9. "But she loved her roses (didn't that help the Armenians?)"; Katerina Kitsi-Mitako.- 10.Virginia Woolf and The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002); María José Gamez-Fuentes and Rebeca Maseda García..- Part IV. Historical Perspectives.- 11. Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money without Narrative Qualities; Mathias Nilges.- 12. Marianne Moore and the Logic of 'Inner Sensuousness'; Charles Altieri.- 13. Intimidated Thought; Michael D'Arcy.- 14. A Quotation from Seneca is Missing; Jerónimo Pizarro.- Part V. Dystopias of the Self.- 15. The Well is not the World; Stephen Mulhall.- 16. Pictorial Decorum; Jonathan Gilmore.- 17. "Navegar é preciso; Viver não é preciso"; Bartholomew Ryan.- Index.
About the author
Ana Falcato holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal . Between 2013 and 2015 she was Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in
Studies in the Novel,
Kant-Studien,
Wittgenstein-Studien and
Daimon: Revista International de Filosofía. She is currently a research fellow at IFILNOVA, where she conducts a project about the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee.
Antonio Cardiello holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has joint responsibility for the digitization of Fernando Pessoa's Private Library, is co-author of
A Biblioteca de Fernando Pessoa(2010),
Os Objectos de Fernando Pessoa (2013) and of the first critical edition of
Obra Completa de Álvaro de Campos (2014). He currently works as scientific consultant for Fernando Pessoa House.
Summary
Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both disciplines is a self-conscious reflection on possible modes of writing philosophy today, and a systematic comparison with what happened in literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The volume is divided into six sections, where internationally renowned scholars discuss such pressing topics as the role of an unreliable narrator in a major philosophical treatise, the different mediums of art-production and how these impact on our perception of the Work itself, the role of narrative in animal ethics and the filmic adaption of a Modernist classic.
