Literature and the Question of Philosophy

Anthony J. Cascardi is the author of The Limits of Illusion and of The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert. He is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

At the forefront of the most exciting, important, original, and serious recent work both in post-foundational moral philosophy and in literary theory. This work is nicely juxtaposed... with the more skeptical essays of the postmodernist textualist. Revue Internationale de Philosophie In these impressive essays, philosophy rediscovers that it is written; literature recaptures its moral seriousness. -- Michael Fischer Philosophy and Literature

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionAnthony J. CascardiChapter 1. Philosophy as/ and/ of LiteratureChapter 2. Philosophy and Poetry: The Difference between Them in Plato and DescartesChapter 3. Philosophical Discourses and Fictional TextsChapter 4. Levels of Discourse in Plato's DialoguesChapter 5. From the Sublime to the Natural: Romantic Responses to KantChapter 6. From Expressivist Aesthetics to Expressivist EthicsChapter 7. "Finely Aware and Richly Responsible": Literature and the Moral ImaginationChapter 8. Why Intentionalism Won't Go AwayChapter 9. The Limits of InterpretationChapter 10. Endowment, Enablement, Entitlement: Toward a Theory of ConstitutionChapter 11. Writer, Text, Work, AuthorChapter 12. Rewriting the Self: Barthes and the Utopias of LanguageChapter 13. Postmodernism in Philosophy: Nostalgia for the Future, Waiting for the PastNotes on Contributors