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OverviewIn recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening. Poetry is the sole exception. This is an astonishing omission, one this collection of original essays will correct. If contemporary philosophy still regards metaphors such as 'Juliet is the sun' as a serious problem, one has an acute sense of how prepared it is to make philosophical and aesthetic sense of poems such W. B. Yeats's 'The Second Coming', Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy', or Paul Celan's 'Todesfuge'. The Philosophy of Poetry brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. In doing so it lays the foundation for a proper philosophy of poetry, setting out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address. Given its breadth of approach, the volume is relevant not only to aesthetics but to all areas of philosophy concerned with meaning, truth, and the communicative and expressive powers of language more generally. Poetry is the last unexplored frontier in contemporary analytic aesthetics, and this volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Gibson (University of Louisville)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9780199603671ISBN 10: 0199603677 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 14 May 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsJohn Gibson: Introduction 1: Peter Lamarque: Semantic Finegrainedness and Poetic Value 2: Ronald de Sousa: The Dense and the Transparent: Reconciling Opposites 3: Jesse Prinz and Eric Mandelbaum: Poetic Opacity: How to Paint Things with Words 4: Sherri Irvin: Unreadable Poems and How They Mean 5: Simon Blackburn: Can an Analytic Philosopher Read Poetry? 6: Anna Christina Soy Ribeiro: The Spoken and the Written: An Ontology of Poetic Works 7: Roger Scruton: Poetry & Truth 8: Angela Leighton: Poetry's Knowing: So What Do We Know? 9: Alison Denham: Celan's Song: Pictures, Poetry, and Epistemic Value 10: Tzachi Zamir: The Inner Paradise 11: Richard Eldridge: 'To Think Exactly and Courageously': Poetry, Ingeborg Bachmann's Poetics, and her Bohemia Poem IndexReviews[T]his is a useful and stimulating collection of some of the best current work on poetry from a mostly philosophical perspective. Ole Martin Skilleas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [T]his is a useful and stimulating collection of some of the best current work on poetry from a mostly philosophical perspective. Ole Martin Skilleas, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This splendid collection of solidly documented, beautifully argued essays on modern poetry as an object of philosophical scrutiny works hard to catch up with similar philosophical attention to the visual arts. Gibson (philosophy, Univ. of Louisville) provides an ambitious introduction-though this reviewer wishes the suggestions for further reading had included George Steiner, I. A. Richards, and William Empson. Roger Scruton is the heavyweight contributor...His observations about poetry and prose and about T. S. Eliot are invaluable...Proud of their analytic skills, philosophers turn out to be masterful readers of modern lyric poetry. Readers will be grateful that the notes are at the base of the page...Highly Recommended. C.A.Riley II, CHOICE Author InformationJohn Gibson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. His research focuses on topics in the philosophy of literature and aesthetics. He is the author of Fiction and the Weave of Life (OUP, 2007) and coeditor of Narrative, Emotion and Insight (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), The Literary Wittgenstein (Routledge, 2004), A Sense of The World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge (Routledge, 2007), and the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature. He is currently working on a manuscript titled Poetry, Metaphor, and Nonsense: An Essay on Meaning. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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