An Ancient Quarrel Continued: The Troubled Marriage of Philosophy and Literature [Paperback]

InAn Ancient Quarrel Continued, Louis Mackey argues that the relationship of philosophy with the literary arts is more intimate, more problematic, and more interesting than its relationship with the sciences. Employing the methods of philosophical analysis, as well as critical reading, traversing the realms of literary theory and philosophical fiction, Mackey characterizes a philosophy more acutely conscious of its own textuality and of its reliance on literary forms it ordinarily regards as merely decorative. Mackey shows that the real philosophical interest of literature lies not in what it says, but in the way it creatively molds and modifies the topics of discourse common to philosophy and the other verbal arts.Louis Mackeyis Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin.

Scanlan divides neatly and comprehensively the philosophical concerns of Dostoevsky...Scanlan will prove extremely useful to many readers. Review of Metaphysics

Scanlan divides neatly and comprehensively the philosophical concerns of Dostoevsky...Scanlan will prove extremely useful to many readers. Review of Metaphysics

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 The Philosophy of Genre and the Genre of Philosophy
Chapter 3 Kant, Vaihinger, and the Fiction of Philosophy
Chapter 4 Poetry, History, Truth, and Redemption
Chapter 5 Anatomical Curiosities: Northrop Frye's Theory of Criticism
Chapter 6 The Preface of the Question: An Entertainment
Chapter 7 Theory and Practice in the Rhetoric of I.A. Richards
Chapter 8 Sounding Brass. Tinkling Symbols.
Chapter 9 Eros into Logos: The Rhetoric of Courtly Love
Chapter 10 Allegories of Reading in Robert Coover's Exemplary Fictions
Chapter 11 Pieces of Pynchon
Chapter 12 The Name of the Book
Chapter 13 Seeing Things as They Aren't: The Case of Science Fiction
Chapter 14 A Nicer Knowledge of Belief
Chapter 15 Philosophy: To Be Continued
Chapter 16 Notes
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