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Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives
ISBN: 9780231547246
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: European poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Philosophy European -- 20th century;

This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry.

Ranjan Ghosh (PhD, University of North Bengal) is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal. He is the author of Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet from Philip Sidney to T.S. Eliot (Routledge, 2016), The Poet's School: Rabindranath Tagore and Philosophy of Education (Palgrave, 2014), and Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading (Berghahn, 2012); the coauthor (with J. Hillis Miller) of Thinking Literature Across Continents (Duke, 2016); the editor of Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perapectives from Europe to Asia (Routledge, 2012) and Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World (Routledge, 2009); and the coeditor (with Ethan Kleinberg) of Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century (Cornell, 2013).Ghosh Ranjan :

Ranjan Ghosh (PhD, University of North Bengal) is Professor of English at the University of North Bengal. He is the author of Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet from Philip Sidney to T.S. Eliot (Routledge, 2016), The Poet's School: Rabindranath Tagore and Philosophy of Education (Palgrave, 2014), and Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading (Berghahn, 2012); the coauthor (with J. Hillis Miller) of Thinking Literature Across Continents (Duke, 2016); the editor of Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perapectives from Europe to Asia (Routledge, 2012) and Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World (Routledge, 2009); and the coeditor (with Ethan Kleinberg) of Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century (Cornell, 2013).Rabaté Jean-Michel :

Jean-Michel Rabate (PhD, Literature, University of Paris VIII) is Professor of English and Comparative Litersture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous books, including The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2014), The Future of Theory (Wiley, 2008), Crimes of the Future: Theory and its Global Reproduction (Bloomsbury, 2014), T he Ghosts of Modernity (Florida, 2010), The Ethics of the Lie (Other Press, 2008), and Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature (Palgrave, 2002).Deranty Jean-Philippe :

Jean-Philippe Deranty (PhD, Philosophy, Paris IV-Sorbonne) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Beyond Communication. A Critical Study of Axel Honneth's Social Philosophy (Brill, 2009) and (co-edited with Katia Genel) Recognition versus Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality and Identity (Columbia, 2016). He has guest-edited a special issue of the journal Travailler (2013) on philosophy and work and is chief editor of the journal Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory .Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal. He is the author of Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot (2017) and coauthor (with J. Hillis Miller) of Thinking Literature Across Continents (2016), among others.