Taking a work by J.M. Coetzee as an example, this volume explores the way both literature and philosophy seek - and fail - to represent reality.

The book offers a new interpretation of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost as a clash of metaphysical systems, with free will hanging in the balance.

Hans Castorp, an unassuming young engineer, sits on the balcony of the International Sanatorium Berghof, wrapped in blankets, naïvely but earnestly pondering the meaning of life, time, and his love for the beautiful Clavdia Chauchat, a ...

In this beautifully written and deeply insightful book, Simon Critchley shows how Wallace Stevens's poems contain deep and important philosophical insight.

An Aesthete par Excellence -- 14. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dinner Party -- 15. The Art of Killing -- VI. The Beauty and Art and Horror of Everything This World Has to Offer -- 16. Empathy for the Devil -- 17.

This book shows how writers like James Joyce, James Merrill, and Doris Lessing; scientists like Gregory Bateson, Ilya Prigogine, and David Bohm; and theorists like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Serres forecasted and initiated a ...

Holderlin, and Trakl in relation to philosophy, and in particular to Heidegger. This work is impressive for its erudition, and the author brilliantly illuminates the history of the myriad philosophical question he raises.

De Chene (philosophy, Emory U.) discusses the context in which Descartes' ideas about the nature of biology took shape, addressing how the themes, arguments, and vocabulary of Descartes' mechanistic biology relate to the writings of 17th ...

Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature most writers promote: they propose a new world view, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the “nature” they ...