Philosophy's literature
Editorial CLINAMEN PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher CLINAMEN PRESS
- ISBN13 9781903083093
- ISBN10 1903083095
- Type BOOK
- Pages 198
- Published 2001
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
EssaysPhilosophy's literature
Editorial CLINAMEN PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
"Philosophy's Literature is a meditation on the essential interpenetration of the fields in the humanities, building on and opening out to a broader spectrum the themes of work and difference established in Andrew Benjamin's previous work." "Philosophy has traditionally attempted to define its field of activity by acts of exclusion, perhaps most strikingly in the case of literature. Philosophy's Literature begins by investigating what follows for philosophy when that act of exclusion is understood philosophically. Via an analysis of Goethe, Celan and Lessing, Benjamin reads literature as allowing both its own specificity and the capacity to introduce and sustain a discussion of topics central to philosophy - memory, friendship, the origin of art."--BOOK JACKET.