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John, Eileen (2018) Literature and philosophical progress. Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 6 (1). pp. 18-40. doi:10.19079/metodo.6.1.17
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.19079/metodo.6.1.17
Abstract
This paper addresses the question of how literary and philosophical thinking can converge in experience of a literary work. Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen, in Truth, Fiction, and Literature, dispute this possibility, and this discussion responds to their view, with particular attention to their account of thematic interpretation. Thematic interpretation is presented here as involving thought about the reasons behind a work’s use of its content and other features. Those reasons have an implicit generality that allows us to move from literary specificity to general, philosophically significant thought. Philosophy’s need for the kind of thinking supported by literature, exploring patterns, priorities and less than universal claims, is defended. George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch and Lydia Davis’s story ‘Ethics’ provide illustrations of the issues.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Literature -- Philosophy, Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, Davis, Lydia, 1947- -- Ethics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy | ||||||
| Publisher: | sdvig press, Genève-Lausanne | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2281-9177 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 18-40 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.19079/metodo.6.1.17 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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