Literature & Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Keats and Philosophy

   The Life of Sensations

   By Shahidha Bari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Alexander von Humboldt's Translantic Personae

   Edited by Vera Kutzinski

   Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Philosophy of Curiosity

   By Ilhan Inan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know. Working in an area where epistemology and philosophy of language overlap, Inan forges a link between our ability to become aware of our ignorance and our linguistic aptitude to construct terms referring to...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Theory and the Disappearing Future

   On de Man, On Benjamin

   By Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, J. Hillis Miller, with a manuscript by Paul de Man

   Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
5. Benjamin Constant

   A Biography

   By Dennis Wood

   `For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

   By Thomas Rice Henn

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of ‘the fact or experience called...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
7. Shakespeare and Philosophy

   By Stanley Stewart

   Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

   Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Language of Criticism (Routledge Revivals)

   By John Casey

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein. Literary critical and aesthetic judgements are rational, but are not to be explained by...

   Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. Theory After 'Theory'

   Edited by Jane Elliott, Derek Attridge

   This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics,...

   Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. Habermas and Literary Rationality

    By David L. Colclasure

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    Literary scholarship has paid little serious attention to Habermas' philosophy, and, on the other hand, the reception of Habermas has given little attention to the role that literary practice can play in a broader theory of communicative action. David Colclasure's argument sets out to demonstrate...

    Published May 24th 2010 by Routledge