Philosophy as World Literature

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications include The End of American Literature (2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What’s Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Philosophy as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), Catastrophe and Higher Education (2020), Vinyl Theory (2020), and Happiness (2022).

This is an important, timely, and much-needed collection of essays that not only builds bridges between philosophy and literature, but highlights the importance of global networks for both fields.

• AcknowledgmentsPhilosophy as World Literature: An IntroductionJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)Part I World, Worlding, Worldliness1. The World, the Text, and Philosophy: Reflections on TranslationBrian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)2. Plato as World LiteraturePaul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, USA)3. Worlding Interpretation, or Fanon and the Poetics of DisalienationNicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)4. Alluvia: The Palimpsest of African MemoryMichael Stern (University of Oregon, USA)Part II Migration and Difference5. Feminism as World LiteratureRobin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA)6. Astonishing Worlding: Montaigne and the New WorldZahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)7. Literature of the World, Unite!Peter Hitchcock (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)8. Transatlantic Thoreau: Henry S. Salt, Gandhi, and British Humanitarian SocialismDavid M. Robinson (Oregon State University, USA)Part III Philosophy, Religion, and the East9. Nietzsche and World Iterature: The Eternal Recurrence of Dualism in Thus Spake ZarathustraJeffrey S. Librett (University of Oregon, USA)10. Asian Philosophy, National Literatures, and World Literature AnthologiesJunjie Luo (Gettysburg College, USA)11. The Dharma of World LiteratureRanjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal, India)12. Olive-Red in Orhan Pamuk and Anton Shammas: Deconstruction’s Eastward DisseminationHenry Sussman (Yale University, USA)Part IV Philosophy versus World Literature13. Existentialism as World Literature: De Beauvoir, Heidegger, and TolstoyRobert Doran (University of Rochester, USA)14. Jorge Luis Borges and PhilosophyEfraín Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)15. Philosophy for the Masses: Haldeman-Julius, Durant, and The Story of PhilosophyJeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)List of ContributorsIndex