Introduction / Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost -- Relations between philosophy and literature -- Philosophy as literature and more than literature / Richard Shusterman -- Philosophy and literature : friends of the earth? / Roger A. Shiner -- Philosophy and literature, and rhetoric : adventures in polytopia / Walter Jost -- Philosophy and/as/of literature / Arthur C. Danto -- Emotional engagement and the experience of reading -- Emotion and the understanding of narrative / Jenefer Robinson -- Feeling fictions / Roger Scruton -- The experience of reading / Peter Kivy -- Self-defining reading : literature and the constitution of personhood / Garry L. Hagberg -- Philosophy, tragedy, and literary form -- Tragedy and philosophy / Anthony J. Cascardi -- Iago's Elenchus : Shakespeare, Othello, and the Platonic inheritance / M.W. Rowe -- Catharsis / Jonathan Lear -- Passion, counter-passion, catharsis : Flaubert (and Beckett) on feeling nothing / Joshua Landy -- Literature and the moral life -- Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theory / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Henry James, moral philosophers, moralism / Cora Diamond -- Literature and the idea of morality / Eileen John -- Styles of self-absorption / Daniel Brudney -- Narrative and the question of literary truth -- Narrative, imitation, and point of view / Gregory Currie -- How and what we can learn from fiction / Mitchell Green -- Literature and truth / Peter Lamarque --Truth in poetry : particulars and universals / Richard Eldridge -- Intention and biography in criticism -- Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism / Paisley Livingston -- Art as techne, or, the intentional fallacy and the unfinished project of formalism / Henry Staten -- Biography in literary criticism / Stein Haugom Olsen -- Getting inside Heisenberg's head / Ray Monk -- On literary language -- Wittgenstein and literary language / Jon Cook and Rupert Read -- Exemplification and expression / Charles Altieri -- At play in the fields of metaphor / Ted Cohen -- Macbeth appalled / Stanley Cavell.
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"This diverse collection of essays represents the most recent critical thinking concerning the philosophical study of literature. Contributed by an international team of eminent scholars drawn from the fields of both literature and philosophy. the great majority of essays are newly commissioned for this volume. supplemented by a few indispensable works of recent scholarship."--Jacket.