Philosophy as world literature / edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Leo, Jeffrey R., editor.

Series:

Literatures as world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Explores the intersections between philosophy and literature through a transnational, comparative lens"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Index.

Acknowledgments

Philosophy as World Literature: An Introduction

Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Part I

World, Worlding, Worldliness

1. The World, the Text, and Philosophy: Reflections on Translation

Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)

2. Plato as World Literature

Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, USA)

3. Worlding Interpretation, or Fanon and the Poetics of Disalienation

Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)

4. Alluvia: The Palimpsest of African Memory

Michael Stern (University of Oregon, USA)

Part II

Migration and Difference

5. Feminism as World Literature

Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA)

6. Astonishing Worlding: Montaigne and the New World

Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)

7. Literature of the World, Unite!

Peter Hitchcock (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)

8. Transatlantic Thoreau: Henry S. Salt, Gandhi, and British Humanitarian Socialism

David M. Robinson (Oregon State University, USA)

Part III

Philosophy, Religion, and the East

9. Nietzsche and World Iterature: The Eternal Recurrence of Dualism in Thus Spake Zarathustra

Jeffrey S. Librett (University of Oregon, USA)

10. Asian Philosophy, National Literatures, and World Literature Anthologies

Junjie Luo (Gettysburg College, USA)

11. The Dharma of World Literature

Ranjan Ghosh (University of North Bengal, India)

12. Olive-Red in Orhan Pamuk and Anton Shammas: Deconstruction's Eastward Dissemination

Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA)

Part IV

Philosophy versus World Literature

13. Existentialism as World Literature: De Beauvoir, Heidegger, and Tolstoy

Robert Doran (University of Rochester, USA)

14. Jorge Luis Borges and Philosophy

Efraín Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

15. Philosophy for the Masses: Haldeman-Julius, Durant, and The Story of Philosophy

List of Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501351891

1501351893

9781501351907

1501351907

9781501351884

1501351885