{"title":"In Defense of Abstract Creationism: A Recombinatorial Approach","authors":"Michael Y. Bennett","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"489 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45802231","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:According to the authors of the widely discussed Coddling of the American Mind, the protections received in childhood by today's college students made them the fragile souls who have demanded and often obtained protection from "unsafe" ideas. The authors' analysis implicates larger questions than they seem quite prepared to discuss—in particular, what it means to be an agent as opposed to a hapless product of one's upbringing. Investigating this issue, I consult two renowned works of literature that examine the constricted upbringing of women, who were understood as fragile beings long before iGen arrived on the scene.
{"title":"Upbringing and Agency: Three Perspectives","authors":"S. Justman","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:According to the authors of the widely discussed Coddling of the American Mind, the protections received in childhood by today's college students made them the fragile souls who have demanded and often obtained protection from \"unsafe\" ideas. The authors' analysis implicates larger questions than they seem quite prepared to discuss—in particular, what it means to be an agent as opposed to a hapless product of one's upbringing. Investigating this issue, I consult two renowned works of literature that examine the constricted upbringing of women, who were understood as fragile beings long before iGen arrived on the scene.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"348 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43718570","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 paper explores jealousy in Miguel de Unamuno's drama El otro. Drawing on contemporary philosophy of emotion, I argue that for the Spanish author, jealousy gives the subject a sense of self. The paper begins by embedding Unamuno's philosophical anthropology in the context of contemporary emotion theory. It then presents the drama as an investigation into the affective dimension of self-identity. The third section offers an analysis of jealousy as an emotion of self-assessment. The final section discusses how this drama can be regarded as a piece of philosophical work.
{"title":"Jealousy and the Sense of Self: Unamuno and the Contemporary Philosophy of Emotion","authors":"I. V. Ferran","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores jealousy in Miguel de Unamuno's drama El otro. Drawing on contemporary philosophy of emotion, I argue that for the Spanish author, jealousy gives the subject a sense of self. The paper begins by embedding Unamuno's philosophical anthropology in the context of contemporary emotion theory. It then presents the drama as an investigation into the affective dimension of self-identity. The third section offers an analysis of jealousy as an emotion of self-assessment. The final section discusses how this drama can be regarded as a piece of philosophical work.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"295 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48493417","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:Where they are based in Immanuel Kant's categories of the sublime or monstrous, recent aesthetically based accounts reflect the conventional view of Victor Frankenstein's creature as a monster. This project instead engages Kant's category of the ugly, which makes possible a dialectical, narrative-based aesthetic, one folding both Victor's and the creature's interiority to within the social form of disinterested play otherwise known as intersubjectivity. Robert Walton's encounter with the creature provides a fleeting example of this phenomenon: employing Mojca Kuplen's "positive aesthetic of disgust," it offers a stimulus to revised forms of ethics or agency, thus invoking Theodor Adorno's end of aesthetic inquiry.
{"title":"\"Deus in Animo\": Kantian Ugliness and the Narrative Aesthetic of Frankenstein","authors":"Karen Hadley","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Where they are based in Immanuel Kant's categories of the sublime or monstrous, recent aesthetically based accounts reflect the conventional view of Victor Frankenstein's creature as a monster. This project instead engages Kant's category of the ugly, which makes possible a dialectical, narrative-based aesthetic, one folding both Victor's and the creature's interiority to within the social form of disinterested play otherwise known as intersubjectivity. Robert Walton's encounter with the creature provides a fleeting example of this phenomenon: employing Mojca Kuplen's \"positive aesthetic of disgust,\" it offers a stimulus to revised forms of ethics or agency, thus invoking Theodor Adorno's end of aesthetic inquiry.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"435 - 446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45065366","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:In an effort to contribute to the burgeoning practice of reading literature through a Heideggerian lens that has been jumpstarted by such scholars as Pol Vandevelde, Jonathan Bate, Dominic Griffiths, and William Galperin, this article explores the various ways that Martin Heidegger's question concerning technology can shed light on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I examine how Heidegger's "true technology," that is, techne ("poiesis" or "bringing-forth") parallels the Romantic use of autopoiesis. Both Heideggerian philosophy and Shelley's Frankenstein exhibit instances in which techne and other acts of poiesis enable the subject access to an ecstatic experience of time and being.
{"title":"To Live a Meaningful Life: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through Heideggerian Techne","authors":"Tara Cuthbertson","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an effort to contribute to the burgeoning practice of reading literature through a Heideggerian lens that has been jumpstarted by such scholars as Pol Vandevelde, Jonathan Bate, Dominic Griffiths, and William Galperin, this article explores the various ways that Martin Heidegger's question concerning technology can shed light on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I examine how Heidegger's \"true technology,\" that is, techne (\"poiesis\" or \"bringing-forth\") parallels the Romantic use of autopoiesis. Both Heideggerian philosophy and Shelley's Frankenstein exhibit instances in which techne and other acts of poiesis enable the subject access to an ecstatic experience of time and being.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"447 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44913857","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 paper analyzes the influence that The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky exerted on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical ideas. I argue that this impact was not limited exclusively to Wittgenstein's moral certainty but that it played an important role in his concept of the subject as the limit of the world, as formulated in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I attempt to show that this concept is embedded in literature, particularly in Dostoevsky, who describes liminal situations—crime, sin, guilt—in which the human being is at the edge of the world, at its boundary, as if within and at the same time outside.
{"title":"Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky: Happiness and Subjectivity","authors":"P. Dehnel","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper analyzes the influence that The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky exerted on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical ideas. I argue that this impact was not limited exclusively to Wittgenstein's moral certainty but that it played an important role in his concept of the subject as the limit of the world, as formulated in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I attempt to show that this concept is embedded in literature, particularly in Dostoevsky, who describes liminal situations—crime, sin, guilt—in which the human being is at the edge of the world, at its boundary, as if within and at the same time outside.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"470 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66275477","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:Friedrich Nietzsche generalized his attack on Christianity to include German philosophy, which he called an "underhand theology." He was referring primarily to the post-Kantian philosophy of German Romantic thinkers educated at the famous Tübingen theological seminary. This essay tests Nietzsche's characterization by examining the jointly conceived "Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism" and other early works by three of the most famous seminarians from the school: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who shared quarters and ideas in the seminary in the final decade of the eighteenth century.
摘要:弗里德里希·尼采将他对基督教的攻击概括为对德国哲学的攻击，他称之为“阴险的神学”。他主要指的是在著名的宾根神学院(tbingen theological seminary)接受教育的德国浪漫主义思想家的后康德哲学。这篇文章通过考察三位最著名的神学院学生共同构思的“德国理想主义最古老的系统纲领”和其他早期作品来检验尼采的特征:F. W. J.谢林，G. W. F.黑格尔和诗人弗里德里希Hölderlin，他们在18世纪最后十年在神学院分享宿舍和思想。
{"title":"German Romantic Philosophy: \"Underhand Theology\"?","authors":"T. Ziolkowski","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Friedrich Nietzsche generalized his attack on Christianity to include German philosophy, which he called an \"underhand theology.\" He was referring primarily to the post-Kantian philosophy of German Romantic thinkers educated at the famous Tübingen theological seminary. This essay tests Nietzsche's characterization by examining the jointly conceived \"Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism\" and other early works by three of the most famous seminarians from the school: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who shared quarters and ideas in the seminary in the final decade of the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"269 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42262622","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:Michel de Montaigne's "Of friendship" is often read as a celebration of his relationship with his late friend Étienne de La Boétie. This is not wrong but, rather, incomplete. Drawing on the chapters of Montaigne's Essais that immediately follow "Of friendship," this essay argues that Montaigne's chapter on friendship is part of a larger project in which he employs philosophical fictions—specifically, his "perfect friendship" with La Boétie and the "perfect society" that he depicts in "Of cannibals"—to reorient us in our relationships not only with our friends but also with our enemies.
摘要：米歇尔·德·蒙田的《友谊》经常被解读为对他与已故朋友Étienne de La博neneneea蒂关系的庆祝。这不是错误的，而是不完整的。这篇文章借鉴了蒙田的Essais中紧接着“友谊”的章节，认为蒙田关于友谊的章节是他运用哲学小说的一个更大项目的一部分——特别是，他与La Boétie的“完美友谊”以及他在《食人族》中描绘的“完美社会”——重新定位我们不仅与朋友的关系，还与敌人的关系。
{"title":"Montaigne's Perfect Friendship and Perfect Society: Philosophical Fictions as Useful Reminders","authors":"Christopher Edelman","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Michel de Montaigne's \"Of friendship\" is often read as a celebration of his relationship with his late friend Étienne de La Boétie. This is not wrong but, rather, incomplete. Drawing on the chapters of Montaigne's Essais that immediately follow \"Of friendship,\" this essay argues that Montaigne's chapter on friendship is part of a larger project in which he employs philosophical fictions—specifically, his \"perfect friendship\" with La Boétie and the \"perfect society\" that he depicts in \"Of cannibals\"—to reorient us in our relationships not only with our friends but also with our enemies.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"367 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47964167","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:Many of the poems and essays of Louis MacNeice display a knowledge of the philosophical theories he studied during his undergraduate years in Merton College, Oxford. In his "Variation on Heraclitus" and in several other poems, MacNeice alludes to the "doctrine of flux" that Plato attributed to the Greek thinker Heraclitus of Ephesus. Though the view of Heraclitus as the champion of flux is controversial, it provided MacNeice with a framework within which to reflect on the conditions essential to living a free and productive life.
{"title":"MacNeice the Heraclitean","authors":"J. Lesher","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Many of the poems and essays of Louis MacNeice display a knowledge of the philosophical theories he studied during his undergraduate years in Merton College, Oxford. In his \"Variation on Heraclitus\" and in several other poems, MacNeice alludes to the \"doctrine of flux\" that Plato attributed to the Greek thinker Heraclitus of Ephesus. Though the view of Heraclitus as the champion of flux is controversial, it provided MacNeice with a framework within which to reflect on the conditions essential to living a free and productive life.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"315 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48014335","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":"On Having Three Names","authors":"B. B. Suttle","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"496 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43073106","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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