Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/phl.2023.a899687
David S. Wemyss
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/phl.2023.a899676
Jeffrey S. Wieand
Abstract:This paper discusses Emerson's thoughts on the history and future of art in his 1841 essay "Art." I suggest that characterizing Emerson as a "functionalist" obscures the radical nature of his views and that Emerson ultimately sought the disappearance of the fine arts altogether through a merger of fine art with other creative activities. Emerson seeks to raise human creativity to a divine level and to incorporate beauty in the nature and actions of human beings themselves. I conclude with a brief discussion of the relation between subsequent art movements and Emerson's ideas.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/phl.2023.a899685
Paolo Babbiotti
Abstract:Taking my title from "Lingering in the Woods," one of Umberto Eco's Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, I present a study of Stanley Cavell's style of writing. While a dominant Anglo-American style of philosophical writing seems to be motivated principally by a desire for argumentation, a Cavellian, lingering style aims at thorough expression and description of the human experience. Traces of this style can be found also in Ludwig Wittgenstein's writing. After reopening the debate that arose from some responses to The Claim of Reason, I conclude with a close reading of Cavell's "Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language."
摘要：我的题目取自翁贝托·埃科的《在森林里漫步六次》中的《在树林里徘徊》，我对斯坦利·卡维尔的写作风格进行了研究。虽然英美哲学写作的主导风格似乎主要是出于对论证的渴望，但卡维利亚式的、挥之不去的风格旨在彻底表达和描述人类经验。这种风格的痕迹也可以在路德维希·维特根斯坦的作品中找到。在重新开始对《理性的主张》的一些回应引发的辩论之后，我最后仔细阅读了卡维尔的《维特根斯坦语言视野的Excursus on Wittgenstein’s Vision of Language》
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1353/phl.2023.a899679
Patricia García
Abstract:What is the relationship between philosophical understandings of the infinite and their narrative expressions? This article explores the infinite in two aesthetic paradigms: the horror of the infinite in classical Greece, and Romanticism's glorification of the unlimited. It argues that these two approaches paved the way for a third, a "relational infinite" that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. To illustrate this third paradigm, I draw on the works of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and on other fictions of the fantastic genre that make the boundless and endless a key element of the plot.
{"title":"Aesthetic Modes of the Infinite: Horror, Sublimity, and Relationality","authors":"Patricia García","doi":"10.1353/phl.2023.a899679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2023.a899679","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What is the relationship between philosophical understandings of the infinite and their narrative expressions? This article explores the infinite in two aesthetic paradigms: the horror of the infinite in classical Greece, and Romanticism's glorification of the unlimited. It argues that these two approaches paved the way for a third, a \"relational infinite\" that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. To illustrate this third paradigm, I draw on the works of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges and on other fictions of the fantastic genre that make the boundless and endless a key element of the plot.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"47 1","pages":"67 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46820942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing by Jeanne-Marie Jackson (review)","authors":"A. Alpert","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"495 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42826156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The claim is often made that the novel can be an important resource in developing the moral capacities of readers, but how might this work? What would such an education look like for the reader of a novel? This paper explores these questions by working through a specific novel, Jane Austen's Persuasion, and examining how it accomplishes these goals. I argue that Persuasion dramatizes the workings of moral imagination, and I show how this dramatization can affect the reader by refining her imagination and making her more discerning of moral qualities.
{"title":"\"Now, how were his sentiments to be read?\": Imagination and Discernment in Austen's Persuasion","authors":"Lauren Kopajtic","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The claim is often made that the novel can be an important resource in developing the moral capacities of readers, but how might this work? What would such an education look like for the reader of a novel? This paper explores these questions by working through a specific novel, Jane Austen's Persuasion, and examining how it accomplishes these goals. I argue that Persuasion dramatizes the workings of moral imagination, and I show how this dramatization can affect the reader by refining her imagination and making her more discerning of moral qualities.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"280 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47598504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Claims are often made that, in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century, artists attempted to take over certain functions from religion, particularly the function of redeeming the world. But what exactly it might mean for art to redeem the world is rarely treated with any precision. In this essay, I show that Wordsworth's idea of a poetic theodicy offers an unusually clear and appealing form of the redemptive view of art, which, when properly understood, is less vulnerable to standard criticisms than is commonly thought.
{"title":"Wordsworth and the Idea of a Poetic Theodicy","authors":"M. Alznauer","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Claims are often made that, in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth century, artists attempted to take over certain functions from religion, particularly the function of redeeming the world. But what exactly it might mean for art to redeem the world is rarely treated with any precision. In this essay, I show that Wordsworth's idea of a poetic theodicy offers an unusually clear and appealing form of the redemptive view of art, which, when properly understood, is less vulnerable to standard criticisms than is commonly thought.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"263 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46008790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The paradox of fiction deals with the following question: how is it possible to react emotionally to a fictive image? After a discussion of two important solutions to the paradox, I present an outline of my solution. The "real/fictional information-processing" theory proposes that all kinds of stimuli (real or fictive) are undergoing information processing by the cognitive system. Each stimulus consists of bundle of particular stimuli (for example, a cat) and certain indicators that specify whether it is real or fictitious. Based on the result of this processing, one's emotional response is done adequately—it fits reality.
{"title":"The Paradox of Fiction: A Proposal for a Solution Based on the Information-Processing Approach","authors":"S. Rakover","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paradox of fiction deals with the following question: how is it possible to react emotionally to a fictive image? After a discussion of two important solutions to the paradox, I present an outline of my solution. The \"real/fictional information-processing\" theory proposes that all kinds of stimuli (real or fictive) are undergoing information processing by the cognitive system. Each stimulus consists of bundle of particular stimuli (for example, a cat) and certain indicators that specify whether it is real or fictitious. Based on the result of this processing, one's emotional response is done adequately—it fits reality.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"301 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42560646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Focusing on Socrates and Oedipus, this article explores the role of imagery of legs and leg-associated activities in philosophical and dramatic representations of philosophers. Socrates's philosophizing begins with wandering, culminates in immobile standing, and tragically ends with his sitting with his legs planted in the ground. Oedipus's philosophizing involves tragic ignorance of his own legs: he has succeeded in solving the philosophical riddle about the legs of Man in general, yet fails to see his own feet and thereby to solve the riddle of his own identity.
{"title":"At the Feet of Philosophy: The Dialectics of the Two-Legged Thinker","authors":"Ira Avneri","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Focusing on Socrates and Oedipus, this article explores the role of imagery of legs and leg-associated activities in philosophical and dramatic representations of philosophers. Socrates's philosophizing begins with wandering, culminates in immobile standing, and tragically ends with his sitting with his legs planted in the ground. Oedipus's philosophizing involves tragic ignorance of his own legs: he has succeeded in solving the philosophical riddle about the legs of Man in general, yet fails to see his own feet and thereby to solve the riddle of his own identity.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"312 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43491487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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