Beyond Representation
Beyond Representation
The essays in this 1996 volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematised? The contributors examine these issues with reference both to Romantic and Idealist writers and to some of their literary and philosophical inheritors and revisers. Their essays offer a philosophical understanding of the roots and nature of contemporary literary and philosophical practice, and elaborate, powerful and influential, but rarely decisively articulated, conceptions of the human subject and of value.
- Was the most wide-ranging critical and philosophical scrutiny of Romantic and Idealist thought and writing available at the time of publication
- Distinguished team of contributors
- Will have broad appeal to readers in aesthetics, literature and history of art
Reviews & endorsements
"With sophistication and clarity, these 12 essays show how works of philosophy and of literature have come to share much....In every respect--including the quality of the editing and production--this book is superior....Strongly recommended for all academic libraries." Choice
...one can get a fine and full overview from Richard Eldridge's excellent introduction, which includes a summary of every paper." Roger Seamon, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Product details
April 1996Hardback
9780521480796
320 pages
229 × 152 × 22 mm
0.64kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: from representation to poiesis Richard Eldridge
- 2. Confession and forgiveness: Hegel's poetics of action J. M. Bernstein
- 3. The values of articulation: aesthetics after the aesthetic ideology Charles Altieri
- 4. In their own voice: philosophical writing and actual experience Arthur C. Danto
- 5. Poetry and truth-conditions Samuel Fleischaker
- 6. Fractal contours: chaos and system in the Romantic fragment Azade Seyhan
- 7. The mind's horizon Stanley Bates
- 8. Kant, Hölderlin, and the experience of longing Richard Eldridge
- 9. Wordsworth and the reception of poetry Michael Fischer
- 10. Self-consciousness, social guilt, and Romantic poetry: Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Old Pedlar Kenneth R. Johnston
- 11. Her blood and his mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray and the female self Christine Battersby
- 12. Scene: an exchange of letters Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
