Literature and Philosophy

1. Introduction — Literature and Philosophy: The Contemporary Interface
David Rudrum

Part I. Encounters with Literature in French Philosophy

2. First Lessons: Gilles Deleuze and the Concept of Literature
Anthony Larson

3. ‘The Absence of Origin’: Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy
Derval Tubridy

Part II. Encounters with Literature in Anglo-American Philosophy

4. The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary
Bryan Vescio

5. Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the Descent into Ourselves
Garry L. Hagberg

6. What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You?
Brett Bourbon

Part III. Encounters with Literature in German Philosophy

7. A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf
Ralph Strehle

8. The Poetics of Thinking
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

9. Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin’s Goethe
Richard J. Lane

Part IV. Literature and Philosophy: The Question of Ethics

10. Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy
Mary C. Rawlinson

11. Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?
Rupert Read

Part V. Reading Philosophy as Literature

12. Who is Speaking? Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre
Michael Eskin

13. Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism
Andrew Benjamin

14. Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear, and the Plain Style
Jonathan Rée

15. Philosophy’s Metaphors: Dennett, Midgley, and Derrida
Robert Eaglestone

16. Hearing Voices: A Dialogical Reading of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

David Rudrum

Part VI. Conclusion: Approaching the End

17. No Matter: Aesthetic Theory and the Self-annihilating Artwork
Josh Cohen

18. Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism
Simon Malpas

Keywords: Philosophy, Critical Theory, Literature, general, Literary History, Literary Theory