Much current theorizing about literature involves efforts to renew our sense of aesthetic
values in reading. Such is the case with new formalism as well as recent appeals to the …

We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression
and connection, the other destructive," beyond words" so to speak, and isolating. Language …

This essay asks what it means to read literature with philosophy and argues that we should
discover the literary work's own concepts before engaging it in a dialogue with philosophy …

This paper explores the nature of academic research in the Humanities. It questions whether
such scholarship has been instrumentalised to a narrowly individualistic, short-termist and …

Over the past few decades there has been a turn toward 'the everyday'in the social sciences
and humanities. For some authors, this turn is about making the everyday a new repository …

Dissonant Voices has a twofold aspiration. First, it is a philosophical treatment of everyday
pedagogical interactions between children and their elders, between teachers and pupils …

Abstract For Richard Rorty as well as Stanley Cavell, the realm of the literary carries
particular educational force. Literature holds the potential to lead the insensitive and the …

Of all the existentialist philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir articulates the most compelling
theory of the novel in light of her understanding of the relationship between literature and …

Drawing on the influential work of Theodor Adorno and Edward Said, we argue for a
distinctly later style in the work of the philosopher Stanley Cavell and novelist Don DeLillo …

A guiding idea for this essay is Wittgenstein's view of philosophy as a struggle against
dogmatism, a struggle against philosophical tendencies to search for one form of justification …