Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications include The End of American Literature (2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What’s Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Philosophy as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), Catastrophe and Higher Education (2020), Vinyl Theory (2020), and Happiness (2022).
This is an important, timely, and much-needed collection of essays that not only builds bridges between philosophy and literature, but highlights the importance of global networks for both fields.
Susan Bassnett, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow, UK, and President of the British Comparative Literature Association
<i>Philosophy as World Literature</i> is a valuable contemporary intervention in the long-running quarrel between the philosophers and poets. By reconceiving their relation in terms of the shared problem of ‘worlding,’ it replaces old struggles over universality with concrete issues of translation, migration, colonization, and alterity. In the process, a philosophical work’s textuality or a novel’s philosophical significance is shown to be determined, prior to any theoretical debate, by the facts of its translation, anthologizing, and circulation through networks that are global in scope.
Ralph M. Berry, Emeritus Professor of English, Florida State University, USA
Certainly those of us who have long argued for the sisterhood of philosophy and literature, and labored to contribute to the tradition of an American philosophical fiction, will welcome <i>Philosophy as World Literature</i> with a cheer. But anyone and everyone who cares deeply about literature and philosophy will be thankful for this huge, necessary, and magnificent collection of illuminating essays.
Charles Johnson, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Washington, USA
What does it mean to consider philosophy as a species of not just literature but world literature? The authors in this collection explore philosophy through the lens of the "worlding" of literature--that is, how philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect.
Historically, much of the world's most influential philosophy, from Plato’s dialogues and Augustine’s confessions to Nietzsche’s aphorisms and Sartre’s plays, was a form of literature--as well as, by extension, a form of world literature. Philosophy as World Literature offers a variety of accounts of how the worlding of literature problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and challenges to the discussion of intersections between philosophy and literature.
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
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)
List of Contributors
Index
Literatures as World Literature welcomes new and creative reading methodologies for engaging with the category of world literature. The series acknowledges that the world as object of study has been defined in recent decades by a set of overarching environmental concerns, ongoing geo-political pressures, and realignments of both hard and soft-power dynamics that together dramatically shift our understanding of world literature as a literary category. With this in mind, the series attends to language, form, medium and theme in relation to literary texts and authors in their world-literary dimensions. The series recognizes that world literature grows out of creative and critical reading practices that empower and deepen our understanding of scholarly and educational approaches to a particular author, genre, art form, or theory in diverse ways.
We are interested in approaches that interrogate conceptions of the world within a range of literary considerations including aesthetic, geographical, and historical. It will also be important to discover the further reaches of this field in forms of largely oral storytelling still practiced today – often making use of emerging media platforms – with its roots traceable to pre-modernity. In short, we invite scholars and practitioners who are willing to move outward from their own areas of specialization to engage in critical inquiry that mobilizes the polyphonic, multiperspectival, multimedial term of world literature in order to discover something novel and expansive about their area of study.
To submit a proposal, please contact Amy.Martin@bloomsbury.com or the series editors: Thomas O. Beebee (tob@psu.edu) or Sofia Ahlberg (sofia.ahlberg@engelska.uu.se). For more information, see www.bloomsbury.com/discover/bloomsbury-academic/authors/submitting-a-book-proposal.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is Editor of the American Book Review, Founding Editor of the journal symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. His recent publications include The End of American Literature (2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), What’s Wrong with Antitheory? (Bloomsbury, 2020), Philosophy as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), Catastrophe and Higher Education (2020), Vinyl Theory (2020), and Happiness (2022).