Philosophy and Literary Modernism

Philosophy and Literary Modernism
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781527517844
ISBN-13 : 1527517845
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Synopsis Philosophy and Literary Modernism by : Robert P. McParland

Philosophy and Literary Modernism probes the relationship of authors with the thought of their time. The authors studied here include Conrad, Eliot, Faulkner, Forster, Hemingway, Hesse, Kafka, Joyce, Lawrence, Williams, and Woolf, among others. Literary modernism engaged with explorations of literary form, language, ways of knowing the world, identity, commitment, chance, truth, and beauty. The book considers how writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Modernism and the Language of Philosophy

Modernism and the Language of Philosophy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781134260096
ISBN-13 : 1134260091
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernism and the Language of Philosophy by : Anat Matar

With a unique approach to the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy, this fascinating work addresses both analytic and continental philosophy, therefore ensuring its appeal to scholars from both fields.

The Decline of Modernism

The Decline of Modernism
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 202
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ISBN-10 : 0271008903
ISBN-13 : 9780271008905
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis The Decline of Modernism by : Peter Bürger

In this book, the author addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century.

Modernist Idealism

Modernist Idealism
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781487528652
ISBN-13 : 1487528655
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernist Idealism by : Michael J. Subialka

Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.

Wittgenstein and Modernism

Wittgenstein and Modernism
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9780226420400
ISBN-13 : 022642040X
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Wittgenstein and Modernism by : Michael LeMahieu

Wittgenstein and Modernism is the first collection to address the rich, vexed, and often contradictory relationship between modernism, the 20th century s predominant cultural and artistic movement, and Wittgenstein, the most preeminent and enduring philosopher of the period. Although Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry, we have yet to fully consider how Wittgenstein s philosophy relates to the poetic, literary, and artistic production that exemplifies the modernist era in which he lived and worked. Featuring contributions from scholars of philosophy and literature, the contributors put Wittgenstein s writing in dialogue with work by poets and novelists (James, Woolf, Kafka, Musil, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Beckett, Bellow and Robinson) as well as philosophers and theorists (Karl Kraus, John Stuart Mill, Walter Benjamin, Michael Fried, Stanley Cavell). The volume illuminates two important aspects of Wittgenstein s work related to modernism and postmodernism: form and medium. Each of Wittgenstein s two major works not only advanced a revolutionary conception of philosophy, but also developed a revolutionary philosophical form to engage his readers in a mode of philosophical practice. As a whole this volume comprises an overarching argument about the importance of Wittgenstein for understanding modernism, and the importance of modernism for understanding Wittgenstein."

Michael Fried and Philosophy

Michael Fried and Philosophy
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781317191841
ISBN-13 : 1317191846
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Michael Fried and Philosophy by : Mathew Abbott

This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection engages with philosophical themes from Fried’s texts, and clarifies the relevance to his work of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Morris Weitz, Elizabeth Anscombe, Arthur Danto, George Dickie, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, G. W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Denis Diderot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière, and Søren Kierkegaard. As it makes a case for the importance of Fried for philosophy, this volume contributes to current debates in analytic and continental aesthetics, philosophy of action, philosophy of history, political philosophy, modernism studies, literary studies, and art theory.

Philosophy Beside Itself

Philosophy Beside Itself
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0719019206
ISBN-13 : 9780719019203
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Philosophy Beside Itself by : Stephen W. Melville

"Philosophy Beside Itself " was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The writings of French philosopher Jacques Derrida have been the single most powerful influence on critical theory and practice in the United States over the past decade. But with few exceptions American philosophers have taken little or no interest in Derrida's work, and the task of reception, translation, and commentary has been left to literary critics. As a result, Derrida has appeared as a figure already defined by essentially literary critical activities and interests. Stephen Melville's aim in "Philosophy Beside Itself " is to insist upon and clarify the distinctions between philosophy and criticism. He argues that until we grasp Derrida's philosophical project as such, we remain fundamentally unable to see his significance for criticism. In terms derived from Stanley Cavell's writings on modernism, Melville develops a case for Derrida as a modernist philosopher, working at once within and against that tradition and discipline. Melville first places Derrida in a Hegelian context, the structure of which he explores by examining the work of Heidegger, Lacan, and Bataille. With this foundation, he is able to reappraise the project of deconstructive criticism as developed in Paul de Man's "Blindness and Insight "and further articulated by other Yale critics. Central to this critique is the ambivalent relationship between deconstructive criticism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Criticism--radical self-criticism--is a central means through which the difficult facts of human community come to recognition, and Melville argues for criticism as an activity intimately bound to the ways in which we do and do not belong in time and in community. Derrida's achievement has been to find a new and necessary way to assert that the task of philosophy is criticism; the task of literary criticism is to assume the burden of that achievement. Stephen Melville is an assistant professor of English at Syracuse University, and Donald Marshall is a professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9781623560683
ISBN-13 : 1623560683
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism by : Paul Ardoin

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations. Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as Proust, Kafka, Beckett and Woolf, on the one hand, and Bacon, Messiaen, and Pollock, among others, in other arts. This volume acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of modernism. Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism begins by "conceptualizing" Deleuze by offering close readings of some of his most important works. The contributors offer new readings that illuminate the context of Deleuze's work, either by reading one of Deleuze's texts against or in the context of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature. The volume's final section features an extended glossary of Deleuze's key terms, with each definition having its own expert contributor.

Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism

Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780191502644
ISBN-13 : 0191502642
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism by : Toril Moi

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism , Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but for his modernism. Situating Ibsen in his cultural context, she shows how unexpected his rise to world fame was, and the extent of his influence on writers such Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce who were seeking to escape the shackles of Victorianism. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism also rewrites nineteenth-century literary history; positioning Ibsen between visual art and philosophy, the book offers a critique of traditional theories of the opposition between realism and modernism. Modernism, Moi argues, arose from the ruins of idealism, the dominant aesthetic paradigm of the nineteenth century. She also shows why Ibsen still matters to us today, by focusing on two major themes-his explorations of women, men, and marriage and his clear-eyed chronicling of the tension between skepticism and the everyday. This radical new account places Ibsen in his rightful place alongside Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Manet as a founder of European modernism.

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781107089594
ISBN-13 : 110708959X
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernist Fiction and Vagueness by : Megan Quigley

Modernist Fiction and Vagueness examines the development of the modernist novel in relation to changing approaches to philosophy. It argues that the puzzle of vagueness challenged the great thinkers of the early twentieth century and led to dramatic changes in both fiction and philosophy. Building on recent interest in the connections among analytic philosophy, pragmatism, and modern literature, this book posits that literary vagueness should be read as a defining quality of modernist fiction.