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This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy.
List of contents
Introduction. An Encounter between the Poet and the Philosopher
by Bartholomew Ryan
Exordium
by Fernando Pessoa & Co.
Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiro
by Álvaro de Campos
Essays on Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy
Spiritual Traditions
1. Antonio Cardiello - Fernando Pessoa's Vision of Neopaganism as Life's Supreme Art
2. Paulo Borges - Fernando Pessoa, Daoism and the Gap:Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination
3. Jonardon Ganeri - Pessoa's Imaginary India
4. Fabrizio Boscaglia - Pessoa and Islamic Philosophy
Metaphysics and Post-Metaphysics
5. João Constâncio - Nihilism and on Being Nothing in 'The Tobacco Shop'
6. Pedro Duarte - Pessoa and Time
7. Benedetta Zavatta - Pessoa and American Transcendentalism
8. José Gil - Bernardo Soares' Becoming-Landscape
Philosophies of Selfhood
9. Bartholomew Ryan - Voicing Vacillation, Logos and Masks of the Self: Mirroring Kierkegaard and Pessoa
10. Maria Filomena Molder - The Difference between Othering Oneself and Becoming What One is
11. Gianfranco Ferraro - A Hermeneutics of Disquiet: Approaching Pessoa through Foucault
Contemporary Problems and Perspectives
12. J.D. Mininger - Pessoa's The Anarchist Banker and the Logic of Value
13. Bruno Béu - For Your Eyes Only: The Logic of Seeing in Alberto Caeiro's Poetry
14. Michael Marder - Where does Fernando Pessoa Dwell? The Economy and Ecology of the Heteronyms
15. Giovanbattista Tusa - The 'Pessoa' Event: Notes on Philosophy and Poetry
Appendix
16. Jerónimo Pizarro - Pessoa and Philosophy: Texts from the Archive
Critical Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Bartholomew Ryan is a philosophy researcher, musician, and coordinator of CultureLab at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon.
Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher based in Lisbon, where he is currently researching philosophy and ecology at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon.
Antonio Cardiello is a philosophy postdoctoral fellow and member of CultureLab at IFILNOVA, New University of Lisbon.
Summary
This pioneering volume, for the first time, explores the extraordinary Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and his relationship to philosophy.
