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Philosophy of Literature

ISBN: 978-1-444-32432-7

August 2010

Wiley-Blackwell

152 pages

Description
Philosophy of Literature presents six newly-commissioned essays from international scholars that address some of the key issues relating to the philosophy of literature, a thriving and increasingly influential branch of aesthetics
  • Features a half dozen newly commissioned articles from leading scholars in the field of philosophy of literature
  • Focuses on a branch of aesthetics that has not received the attention it deserves
  • Includes a reading on the historical relationship between philosophy and literature with recent developments and projections for the future
  • Contributors include Peter Lamarque (University of York), Peter Kivy (Rutgers University, USA) and Stein Haugom Olsen (University of Bergen, Norway)
About the Author
Severin Schroeder is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the author of three books on the philosophy of Wittgenstein: Das Privatsprachen-Argument, Schöningh (1998), Wittgenstein: The Way Out of the Fly-Bottle (2006), and Wittgenstein lesen (2009). He is also the editor of Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (2001).