1st Edition

Philosophy and Literature A Book of Essays

By M.W. Rowe Copyright 2004
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing together eight previously published essays by M. W. Rowe and a substantial new study of Larkin, this book emphasizes the profound affinities between philosophy and literature. Ranging over Plato, Shakespeare, Goethe, Arnold and Wittgenstein, the first five essays explore an anti-theoretical conception of philosophy. This sees the subject as less concerned with abstract arguments that... Read more
Contents: Preface; Goethe and Wittgenstein; Criticism without theory; Wittgenstein's romantic inheritance; Arnold and the socratic personality; The dissolution of goodness: Measure for Measure and classical ethics; Lamarque and Olsen on literature and truth; The definition of 'art'; Poetry and abstraction; Larkin's 'Aubade'; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Dr. M.W. Rowe