The Philosophy of Literature

by Donald Phillip Verene

The Philosophy of Literature: Four Studies puts forth the question of the extent to which philosophers must go to school with the poets. It begins with a new interpretation of the famous Platonic quarrel with the poetic wisdom of Homer. It brings this question forward through the humanism of thinkers of the Italian Renaissance and the German Idealism of Hegel. It then treats the relation of philosophy and literature in four ways by considering philosophy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532641737
• ISBN13: 9781532641732
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"