{"title":"Don't Feed the Liars! On Fraudulent Memoirs, and Why They're Bad","authors":"J. Landy","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"137 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44295382","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:What do Shakespeare and Michelangelo have in common? William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton's Timon of Athens is labelled as unfinished, akin to Michelangelo's Prisoners sculptures whose fragmentary shapes inspired non-finito aesthetics. As the only Shakespearean play to mention sculpture, I argue that Timon of Athens invites a nonfinito interpretation that captures the infinite performativity of dramatic characters who, like Michelangelo's Prisoners, cannot escape their form. Accepting Timon—as is—reveals the process of collaborative playwriting and offers a creative license for interpretation to performers and readers alike.
摘要：莎士比亚和米开朗基罗有什么共同点？威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）和托马斯·米德尔顿（Thomas Middleton）的《雅典的蒂蒙》（Timon of Athens）被称为未完成作品，类似于米开朗基罗（Michelangelo）的《囚犯》（Prisons）雕塑，其零碎的形状激发了非有限美学的灵感。作为唯一一部提到雕塑的莎士比亚戏剧，我认为《雅典的提蒙》邀请了一种非虚构的解读，捕捉到了戏剧人物的无限表演性，就像米开朗基罗的《囚犯》一样，他们无法逃脱自己的形式。接受蒂蒙——照原样——揭示了合作剧本创作的过程，并为表演者和读者提供了一个创造性的诠释许可。
{"title":"Shakespeare Faciebat: Non-Finito Aesthetics in Timon of Athens","authors":"Marinela Golemi","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What do Shakespeare and Michelangelo have in common? William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton's Timon of Athens is labelled as unfinished, akin to Michelangelo's Prisoners sculptures whose fragmentary shapes inspired non-finito aesthetics. As the only Shakespearean play to mention sculpture, I argue that Timon of Athens invites a nonfinito interpretation that captures the infinite performativity of dramatic characters who, like Michelangelo's Prisoners, cannot escape their form. Accepting Timon—as is—reveals the process of collaborative playwriting and offers a creative license for interpretation to performers and readers alike.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"38 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47197373","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:This article enquires into a transcultural aesthetic: bi-xing (inspired metaphor) in China and symbolic representation in the West, which share the common logic of correlative thinking. By examining its earliest provenance in the Zhouyi (Book of Changes) and Shijing(Book of Songs) in China's high antiquity in relation to divination, symbolization, and poetic creation in the West, it argues that this aesthetic arose from omen readings in divination, went through symbolism in linguistic representation, and became a poetic principle in aesthetic thought. It concludes that correlative thinking was an approach to knowledge production and conception in traditional thought across cultures.
{"title":"Divination and Correlative Thinking: Origins of an Aesthetic in the Book of Changes and Book of Songs","authors":"M. Gu","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article enquires into a transcultural aesthetic: bi-xing (inspired metaphor) in China and symbolic representation in the West, which share the common logic of correlative thinking. By examining its earliest provenance in the Zhouyi (Book of Changes) and Shijing(Book of Songs) in China's high antiquity in relation to divination, symbolization, and poetic creation in the West, it argues that this aesthetic arose from omen readings in divination, went through symbolism in linguistic representation, and became a poetic principle in aesthetic thought. It concludes that correlative thinking was an approach to knowledge production and conception in traditional thought across cultures.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"120 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41626751","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:Philosophers of literature have neglected the short story. I argue that this neglect is unwarranted. The short story raises interesting philosophical questions that deserve attention. If philosophers only ever focused on one form of narrative prose—the novel—they would end up with a distorted picture of literature.
{"title":"Why Do Philosophers Neglect the Short Story? (And Why They Shouldn't)","authors":"Aaron Meskin","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Philosophers of literature have neglected the short story. I argue that this neglect is unwarranted. The short story raises interesting philosophical questions that deserve attention. If philosophers only ever focused on one form of narrative prose—the novel—they would end up with a distorted picture of literature.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"100 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46552681","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:This article examines unrecognized points of conceptual and stylistic convergence between the work of Flann O'Brien and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Though operating in quite different generic and discursive modes, both writers critique impulses to metaphysical systems, idealized models of language, and skepticism. O'Brien and Wittgenstein adopt as correctives to these tendencies techniques to train their readers' attention on the zones of overlap in linguistic usage where points of confusion tend to arise. Finally, this comparison with O'Brien casts new light on Wittgenstein's later work as it illuminates satirical and ironizing styles that have often been overlooked.
{"title":"Flann O'Brien, Wittgenstein, and the Idling of Language","authors":"Andrew Gaedtke","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines unrecognized points of conceptual and stylistic convergence between the work of Flann O'Brien and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Though operating in quite different generic and discursive modes, both writers critique impulses to metaphysical systems, idealized models of language, and skepticism. O'Brien and Wittgenstein adopt as correctives to these tendencies techniques to train their readers' attention on the zones of overlap in linguistic usage where points of confusion tend to arise. Finally, this comparison with O'Brien casts new light on Wittgenstein's later work as it illuminates satirical and ironizing styles that have often been overlooked.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"22 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43902750","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:What is the orienting response, and what does it have to do with narrative? How is narrative related to lying? And what is the motive force of narrative? I will show that the mental activity of writers creating fictions, readers reading them, liars fashioning lies, and listeners when they detect a lie, all share distinct and significant cognitive functions.
{"title":"Narration, Lying, and the Orienting Response","authors":"David J. Lehner","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What is the orienting response, and what does it have to do with narrative? How is narrative related to lying? And what is the motive force of narrative? I will show that the mental activity of writers creating fictions, readers reading them, liars fashioning lies, and listeners when they detect a lie, all share distinct and significant cognitive functions.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"181 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44576274","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 Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds (review)","authors":"D. Herman","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"248 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45122955","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:Do logical paradoxes, like Eubulides's liar paradox (the claim that "I am now lying" is true if and only if it is false), have any "existential" significance or are they mere brain puzzles for the mathematically minded? This paper argues that Randall Jarrell's poem "Eighth Air Force" contains a poetic use of Eubulides's liar paradox, spoken by Pontius Pilate's wife in her statements about the "murder" of Jesus, in order to capture, symbolically, the inherent universal duplicity (inauthenticity) of human life, specifically, the fact that human life, even in its true statements, is an inseparable blend of "truth" and "lies."
摘要:逻辑悖论，如欧布里得斯的说谎者悖论(即“我现在在撒谎”是真的，当且仅当它是假的)，是否具有任何“存在”意义，或者它们仅仅是数学头脑的大脑难题?本文认为，兰德尔·贾雷尔(Randall Jarrell)的诗《第八空军》(Eighth Air Force)诗意地运用了欧布里得斯(Eubulides)的说谎者悖论，这是本丢·彼拉多(Pontius Pilate)的妻子在她关于“谋杀”耶稣的陈述中所说的，目的是象征性地捕捉人类生活中固有的普遍的两面性(不真实性)，具体来说，人类生活，即使在其真实的陈述中，也是“真理”和“谎言”不可分割的混合体。
{"title":"The Meaning of the Liar Paradox in Randall Jarrell's \"Eighth Air Force\"","authors":"Richard Mcdonough","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Do logical paradoxes, like Eubulides's liar paradox (the claim that \"I am now lying\" is true if and only if it is false), have any \"existential\" significance or are they mere brain puzzles for the mathematically minded? This paper argues that Randall Jarrell's poem \"Eighth Air Force\" contains a poetic use of Eubulides's liar paradox, spoken by Pontius Pilate's wife in her statements about the \"murder\" of Jesus, in order to capture, symbolically, the inherent universal duplicity (inauthenticity) of human life, specifically, the fact that human life, even in its true statements, is an inseparable blend of \"truth\" and \"lies.\"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"195 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44742903","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:Can the claim "Sherlock Holmes is a detective" be true if no object exists that has this property? Is it true that he is a fictional character and that he does not exist? My answers are based on Alexius Meinong's theory of objects. In contrast to other Meinongians, I argue that employing other possible worlds poses ontological problems and that existence is not a property of objects. Since we think of objects by means of only some, but not all, of their properties, incomplete objects function as auxiliaries. Holmes can thus be both, detective and fictional character, while not existing.
{"title":"Don't Lie to Me about Fictional Characters: Meinongian Incomplete Objects to the Rescue of Truth in Fiction","authors":"Vera Albrecht","doi":"10.1353/phl.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Can the claim \"Sherlock Holmes is a detective\" be true if no object exists that has this property? Is it true that he is a fictional character and that he does not exist? My answers are based on Alexius Meinong's theory of objects. In contrast to other Meinongians, I argue that employing other possible worlds poses ontological problems and that existence is not a property of objects. Since we think of objects by means of only some, but not all, of their properties, incomplete objects function as auxiliaries. Holmes can thus be both, detective and fictional character, while not existing.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"46 1","pages":"162 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43176351","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:Unlike the traditional view of suffering in philosophy and theology as a deviation from the ideal, John Keats's vale of soul-making attends to the potentiality of the suffering body in the world for fashioning the identities of the modern subject. Keats thereby exhibits a notion of the body that shows more affinity with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on the primary role of perception in knowledge than with John Locke's empiricist account of sensation. Turning to the prereflective experience, Merleau-Ponty concedes the limits of reasoning in the face of an opaque world and hints at a quality similar to Keats's negative capability.
{"title":"Making Sense of Suffering: Merleau-Ponty and Keats's \"Vale of Soul-Making\"","authors":"David Lo","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Unlike the traditional view of suffering in philosophy and theology as a deviation from the ideal, John Keats's vale of soul-making attends to the potentiality of the suffering body in the world for fashioning the identities of the modern subject. Keats thereby exhibits a notion of the body that shows more affinity with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on the primary role of perception in knowledge than with John Locke's empiricist account of sensation. Turning to the prereflective experience, Merleau-Ponty concedes the limits of reasoning in the face of an opaque world and hints at a quality similar to Keats's negative capability.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"279 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674786","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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