Literature & Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. What is Enlightenment?

   By Samuel Fleischacker

   Series: Kant's Questions

   "Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film

   The Idea of America

   Edited by Andrew Taylor, Áine Kelly

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. A Philosophy of the Screenplay

   By Ted Nannicelli

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines—including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies—have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay. To this end, this volume addresses the fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Philosophy of Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll

   With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works. A Skit.

   Edited by Philip E. B. Jourdain

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   This skit of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy was originally published in 1918 by Russell’s correspondent friend Jourdain. The introduction explains that the contents purport to be lost papers written by Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll, a contemporary of Bertrand Russell. This politically humorous volume from...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

   By Thomas Rice Henn

   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 November 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Demonic

   Literature and Experience

   By Ewan Fernie

   Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we’re not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line? Ewan...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Donald Davidson: Life and Words

   Edited by Maria Baghramian

   Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several generations of philosophers. This book brings together articles by a host of prominent philosophers...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Temporalities

   By Russell West-Pavlov

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of...

   Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

    From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

    Edited by Robert M. Schuler

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

    Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge