Art of Being - Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Yi-Ping Ong is Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext In this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence, Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge, freedom, and the world. At stake are the conditions under which knowledge of existence is possible. Zusammenfassung In this account of how the novel reorients philosophy toward the meaning of existence! Yi-Ping Ong shows that the existentialists discovered a radical way of thinking about the relation between the form of the novel and the nature of self-knowledge! freedom! and the world. At stake are the conditions under which knowledge of existence is possible.

Product details

• Authors: Yi-Ping Ong, Ong Yi-Ping
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2018
• EAN: 9780674983656
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98365-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Popular philosophy, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Philosophy: aesthetics, Novel, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form