Philosophy of writing David Arndt

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arndt, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Authorship.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth. Just a few thinkers—including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa—have said that writing itself can be part of the search for understanding. But how can this be true?In this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true. He distinguishes several kinds of thought (demonstrative, interpretive, perspectival, and narrative), and explains how they are articulated in different genres of writing (papers, essays, dialogues, and stories). He ends with fifty principles of composition that guide writing at its best. Philosophy of Writing is both a philosophical meditation on writing and a practical handbook on how to write. This luminous and illuminating book shows—in prose that is clear, graceful, and occasionally witty—how writing has been practiced as a kind of meditation conducive to the search for wisdom. But it also shows how this practice opens the deepest questions of philosophy, and calls into question the meaning of philosophy itself"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Questions

Kinds of thought

Kind of writing

Principles of composition

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed December 25, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Arndt, David Philosophy of writing

ISBN:

9781350473935

1350473936

9781350473911

135047391X

9781350473928

1350473928

OCLC:

1564033695

Access Restriction:

Some versions Open access versions available from some providers open access