New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, Frida Beckman

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Edinburgh University Press
10 February 2025

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Philosophy: aesthetics; Social & political philosophy

This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference work uniquely maps out how new developments in 21st century philosophy are entering into dialogue with the study of literature. Going beyond the familiar methods of analytic philosophy, and with a breadth greater than traditional literary theory, this collection looks at the profound consequences of the interaction between philosophy and literature for questions of ethics, politics, subjectivity, materiality, reality and the nature of the contemporary itself.

Edited by: David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, Frida Beckman
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 172mm,
ISBN: 9781474449151
ISBN 10: 1474449158
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 10 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

David Rudrum is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2013). He is co-editor of Supplanting the Postmodern (Bloomsbury, 2015), Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (Palgrave, 2006). Ridvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. His recent publications include two co-edited volumes, Aesthetics in the 21st Century, a special issue of Speculations (2014), and Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (Narr, 2015). Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

Reviews for New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

New Directions in Philosophy and Literature is a book that explores intensively the turns and tensions that have constituted the crossroads between literature and philosophy. The book is an exhaustive work in which the reader can discover new perspectives and debates that are significant for literary studies, the theories of post-humanism and new materialisms.--Mar Sureda Perelló ""Matter"" The relationship between philosophy and literature has always been tempestuous - ranging from 'ancient quarrel' to love-in - and much has happened recently. The outstanding international contributors to this ground-breaking volume provide a superb and original introduction to 'where we are now' for philosophers, literary theorists, critics and scholars of contemporary fiction.-- ""Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London"" This collection definitively demonstrates, from a wide range of philosophical traditions and international perspectives, that the so-called 'death of theory' has been greatly exaggerated. New Directions in Philosophy and Literature offers us just that - bold new ways to think about the ancient quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Highly recommended.-- ""Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State University""