Philosophy and Oscar Wilde

1. Introduction: A Wilde Mind: The Witty Aesthete and Serious Thinker, or the Witty Thinker and Serious Aesthete?
Michael Y. Bennett

Part I. Facts

2. Wilde at Oxford: A Truce with Facts
Simon Reader

3. Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of History
Philip E. Smith

4. “Even Things That Are True Can Be Proved”: Oscar Wilde on Argument
Bruce Bashford

5. Oscar Wilde: As Daoist Sage
Jerusha McCormack

Part II. Fictions

6.
Homo Ludens: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy
Melissa Knox

7. The Figure of the Jew as Key to Oscar Wilde’s Aesth-Ethos
S. I. Salamensky

8. Wilde Thoughts on Philosophical Reference in An Ideal Husband: “An Ideal” Versus “The Ideal” Husband
Michael Y. Bennett

9. Oscar Wilde and G. F. Hegel: The Wildean Fairy Tale as Postcolonial Dialectic
Katherine O’Keefe

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, British and Irish Literature