Introduction. An Encounter between the Poet and the Philosopher

by Bartholomew Ryan

Exordium

by Fernando Pessoa & Co.

Notes for the Memory of My Master Caeiro

by Álvaro de Campos

Essays on Fernando Pessoa and Philosophy

Spiritual Traditions

1. Antonio Cardiello – Fernando Pessoa’s Vision of Neopaganism as Life’s Supreme Art

2. Paulo Borges – Fernando Pessoa, Daoism and the Gap:Insubstantiality, Emptiness, Vagueness and Indetermination

3. Jonardon Ganeri – Pessoa’s Imaginary India

4. Fabrizio Boscaglia – Pessoa and Islamic Philosophy

Metaphysics and Post-Metaphysics

5. João Constâncio – Nihilism and on Being Nothing in ‘The Tobacco Shop’

6. Pedro Duarte – Pessoa and Time

7. Benedetta Zavatta – Pessoa and American Transcendentalism

8. José Gil – Bernardo Soares’ Becoming-Landscape

Philosophies of Selfhood

9. Bartholomew Ryan – Voicing Vacillation, Logos and Masks of the Self: Mirroring Kierkegaard and Pessoa

10. Maria Filomena Molder – The Difference between Othering Oneself and Becoming What One is

11. Gianfranco Ferraro – A Hermeneutics of Disquiet: Approaching Pessoa through Foucault

Contemporary Problems and Perspectives

12. J.D. Mininger – Pessoa’s The Anarchist Banker and the Logic of Value

13. Bruno Béu – For Your Eyes Only: The Logic of Seeing in Alberto Caeiro’s Poetry

14. Michael Marder – Where does Fernando Pessoa Dwell? The Economy and Ecology of the Heteronyms

15. Giovanbattista Tusa – The ‘Pessoa’ Event: Notes on Philosophy and Poetry

Appendix

16. Jerónimo Pizarro – Pessoa and Philosophy: Texts from the Archive

Critical Bibliography

Index

About the Authors