Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination

Book Overview

The essays in this 1996 volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and Idealist periods. How do so-called literary works take up these problems in a new way? What conception of the subject is involved in this literary practice? How are the lines of demarcation between philosophy and literature problematised? The contributors examine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521175003
• ISBN13: 9780521175005
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"