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ISBN-13: 9781793614841
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
By Timothy Cleveland
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Local release date: 16/08/2022
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 138 pages Weight: 370g
Categories: Philosophy of language [CFA]Literary theory [DSA]Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]

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Google Preview: It is commonplace to regard many great works of literature-poems, dramas, works of fiction-as in some sense philosophical, yet ever since Plato, there has been a tension between the kind of abstract theorizing that goes on in philosophy and the focus on concrete particulars that occurs in poetry and fiction. Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable elaborates on and addresses this Platonic tension, asking in what sense, if any, literature in the form of poetry, drama, short stories, and novels can contribute significantly to our philosophical understanding. Timothy Cleveland suggests there is something in certain poems, novels, and stories that makes them especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy, showing us something that a theoretical-scientific or philosophical-discourse cannot literally say.; Timothy Cleveland is professor of philosophy at New Mexico State University.; Preface Introduction: Encountering the Ineffable Chapter 1: The Platonic Paradigm Chapter 2: The Experience of the Unsayable Chapter 3: The In Principle Ineffable and the Trivially Ineffable Chapter 4: Showing What Can Be Said Chapter 5: Showing What Cannot Be Said Conclusion: How Plato Could Have Settled the Ancient Quarrel Bibliography About the Author; Google Preview content