Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable Cleveland Timothy
Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable Cleveland Timothy It is commonplace to regard many great works of literature--poems, dramas, works of fiction--as in some sense philosophical, yet…
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Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable Cleveland Timothy
It is commonplace to regard many great works of literature--poems, dramas, works of fiction--as in some sense philosophical, yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete particulars that occurs in poetry and fiction. Timothy Cleveland suggests there is something in certain poems, novels, and stories that makes them especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable elaborates on and addresses this Platonic tension, asking in what sense, if any, literature in the form of poetry, drama, short stories, and novels can contribute significantly to our philosophical understanding.
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