<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208</id><updated>2011-07-08T07:02:38.055-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Philosophy of Literature - Forthcoming Events</title><subtitle type='html'>Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Panels</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-598764385016568098</id><published>2009-12-14T04:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T04:57:32.190-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MA in Philosophy and Literature, University of East Anglia, Norwich</title><content type='html'>The MA in Philosophy and Literature offers interdisciplinary study of the two subjects, and explores at many levels the deep links between them. The course is an ideal supplement to an undergraduate degree in either philosophy or literature, and an excellent preparation for advanced research work in either field. Students can choose from a wide range of modules in both subjects, while sharing a research workshop and core units jointly taught by philosophers and literary specialists. This makes the MA a genuinely joint degree, and not one where the two subjects are only taught in parallel.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;UEA has a thriving community of about 30 postgraduate students in Philosophy, and 80-90 in the Literature and Creative Writing. The atmosphere in both schools is friendly, rigorous and supportive, and the staff-student relationship is excellent. Several eminent specialists working in the area make Philosophy and Literature a major focus of research at UEA.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The MA can be taken either as a one year full-time course, or a two year part-time course.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Full details of all module options etc will appear on UEA’s website in January 2010. In the meantime, please contact Dr. Mark Rowe (mark.rowe (a )uea.ac.uk) for further information.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-598764385016568098?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/598764385016568098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/598764385016568098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/12/ma-in-philosophy-and-literature.html' title='MA in Philosophy and Literature, University of East Anglia, Norwich'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-5308031070086795108</id><published>2009-08-20T10:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-20T10:33:16.179-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The European Legacy: Philosophy as Literature</title><content type='html'>THE EUROPEAN LEGACY&lt;br /&gt;Volume 14, Issue 5 (2009)&lt;br /&gt;http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10848770.asp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g914049653"&gt;http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g914049653&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Topic:  Philosophy as Literature &lt;br /&gt;Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TABLE OF CONTENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Articles: &lt;br /&gt;“Introduction: Unorthodox Remarks on Philosophy as Literature” &lt;br /&gt;By Costica Bradatan &lt;br /&gt;Pages 513 – 518&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Of Poets and Thinkers: A Conversation on Philosophy, Literature and the Rebuilding of the World” &lt;br /&gt;By Costica Bradatan; Simon Critchley; Giuseppe Mazzotta; Alexander Nehamas &lt;br /&gt;Pages 519 – 534&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Hunting Plato's Agalmata” &lt;br /&gt;By Matthew Sharpe &lt;br /&gt;Pages 535 – 547&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Nexus of Unity of an Emerson Sentence” &lt;br /&gt;By Kelly Dean Jolley &lt;br /&gt;Pages 549 – 560&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Concept of Writing, with Continual Reference to ‘Kierkegaard’” &lt;br /&gt;By Mark Cortes Favis &lt;br /&gt;Pages 561 – 572&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“An Inhumanly Wise Shame” &lt;br /&gt;By Brendan Moran &lt;br /&gt;Pages 573 – 585&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Stanley Cavell and Two Pictures of the Voice” &lt;br /&gt;By Adam Gonya &lt;br /&gt;Pages 587 – 598&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Philosophy, Poetry, Parataxis” &lt;br /&gt;By Jonathan Monroe&lt;br /&gt;Pages 599 – 611&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Review Essays: &lt;br /&gt;“After the Abyss: Theory Lives On” &lt;br /&gt;By Constance Eichenlaub &lt;br /&gt;Pages 613 – 616&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Funny Masters” &lt;br /&gt;By Sonia Arribas &lt;br /&gt;Pages 617 – 620&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Ritual or Playful? On the Foundations of European Drama” &lt;br /&gt;By Victor Castellani &lt;br /&gt;Pages 621 – 631&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book Reviews: &lt;br /&gt;Reviews by Nick Bentley; Ronald Bogue; Peter Burke; John Danvers; Christopher Irwin; Geoff Kemp; Martyn Lyons; David Malcolm; Gordon Marino; Amy L. Mclaughlin; Brian Nelson; Christian Roy; Paola S. Timiras; Eric White &lt;br /&gt;Pages 633 – 646&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miscellany: &lt;br /&gt;Books Received &lt;br /&gt;Pages 647 – 650&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-5308031070086795108?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/5308031070086795108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/5308031070086795108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/08/european-legacy-philosophy-as.html' title='The European Legacy: Philosophy as Literature'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-4559151829752911334</id><published>2009-06-11T03:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-11T03:25:36.351-07:00</updated><title type='text'>STYLE IN THEORY/STYLING THEORY, University of Malta, 26-28 Nov 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;STYLE IN THEORY/STYLING THEORY (26-28 November, 2009)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inaugural Event, International Literary Criticism and Theory Conference&lt;br /&gt;Series&lt;br /&gt;University of Malta, Old University Building, Valletta, Malta&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confirmed Speakers:&lt;br /&gt;Catherine Belsey&lt;br /&gt;Simon Critchley&lt;br /&gt;Stefan Herbrechter&lt;br /&gt;Giuseppe Mazzotta&lt;br /&gt;Laurent Milesi&lt;br /&gt;Jean-Michel Rabaté&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organizers:&lt;br /&gt;Ivan Callus, James Corby, Gloria Lauri-Lucente&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact E-Mail: styleintheory2009(at)um.edu.mt &lt;&lt;a href="https://secure.um.edu.mt/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=styleintheory2009%40um.edu.mt"&gt;https://secure.um.edu.mt/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=styleintheory2009%40um.edu.mt&lt;/a&gt;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website: &lt;a href="http://www.um.edu.mt/events/styleintheory2009"&gt;http://www.um.edu.mt/events/styleintheory2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“… one has to be in possession of literature.”&lt;br /&gt;—Jean-Luc Nancy&lt;br /&gt;“…truth demands a laborious science without style.”&lt;br /&gt;—Jean-Luc Nancy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two epigraphs to the conference—neither of which lacks&lt;br /&gt;disingenuousness—mark the tensions that have long existed between&lt;br /&gt;philosophy and literature over the question of style. Is Theory really the&lt;br /&gt;discourse to think through, perhaps even to impossibly resolve, those&lt;br /&gt;tensions? As a discourse arguably more hospitable than most to the “writer&lt;br /&gt;philosopher,” with investments both in “the impassive jouissance of&lt;br /&gt;science” (Nancy) and in “the surprise of writing itself” (Leavey), theory&lt;br /&gt;countenances the idea of “truth with style.” It is possibly the discourse&lt;br /&gt;that has come closest to the dream of a writing that would be neither&lt;br /&gt;philosophy nor literature, but that would retain the memory of both&lt;br /&gt;(Derrida).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That, at least, is one of the stories theory tells itself. It is a complex&lt;br /&gt;story, because the place of style in theory is the question and history of&lt;br /&gt;the relations between philosophy, literature, and theory. In reopening&lt;br /&gt;that question and that history, this conference attempts re-articulations&lt;br /&gt;that appear particularly urgent now, when more than ever there is a keen&lt;br /&gt;awareness of writing’s different mediations and of the singularities that&lt;br /&gt;it plurally carries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so, once again—style, in theory:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What, in theory, is style?&lt;br /&gt;What is the role and place of style(s) in theory, in the writing practice&lt;br /&gt;of theory?&lt;br /&gt;Is theory style, and is this the same thing as saying it is stylized?&lt;br /&gt;Has theory gone out of style, never (or about) to return?&lt;br /&gt;Can theory be restyled?&lt;br /&gt;Style, in theory—is that the question of theory, and of theory’s future in&lt;br /&gt;the age of new media?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conference organizers invite abstracts for papers that explore these&lt;br /&gt;and related issues. The following additional points may serve as further&lt;br /&gt;invitations to thinking through the place of style in theory:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Is there a particular style—or styles, or patterns of stylization—proper&lt;br /&gt;to theory? Might this question be reframed in terms of the relation&lt;br /&gt;between le mode and la mode of theory?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Who are the theorists of style? What claims do they make for theory’s&lt;br /&gt;style? Is there, in effect, a canon of texts that think through the place&lt;br /&gt;of style in theory? What is there to be said anew about the rationale, the&lt;br /&gt;rhetoric, the history, the politics of that canon, assuming it exists at&lt;br /&gt;all?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Was theory really ever interested in style? With a number of notable&lt;br /&gt;exceptions, style contrives to be passed over in many commentaries of and&lt;br /&gt;on theory, its challenge not as explicitly addressed as might be expected.&lt;br /&gt;Is this explainable by speculating that style might actually be incidental&lt;br /&gt;to theory, conditional instead upon that towards which theory in each&lt;br /&gt;instance turns its gaze?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• If the aim of philosophy has often appeared to be the achievement of a&lt;br /&gt;style-less writing, whereas literature has been the discourse marked by&lt;br /&gt;the cultivation and development of style, was it always theory’s agenda to&lt;br /&gt;speak a certain philosophical commitment with and to style? If so, then&lt;br /&gt;the presentation of theory—theory’s style(s)—can perhaps be understood as&lt;br /&gt;definitional of theory. Can theory be understood as a re-mapping of the&lt;br /&gt;traditional borders of Darstellung and Dichtung? If so, how does this&lt;br /&gt;characterize the relationship between writing theory and styling theory?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• If style is signature, and if style always finds itself within the order&lt;br /&gt;of the singular, what are the implications for thinking the style(s) of&lt;br /&gt;theory—this discourse that has significant investments in thinking through&lt;br /&gt;the singular?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Who are the authors who cultivate, develop and theorize style as their&lt;br /&gt;signature? How do their literary works illuminate style in theory and&lt;br /&gt;theory in style?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• If the style of theory always “goes before it” and style is always&lt;br /&gt;implicitly recognizable, does this imply that style (and perhaps theory)&lt;br /&gt;is subordinate to an already existing aesthetic outlook? If this is so,&lt;br /&gt;and the recognition of style is taken to be inherently assimilative and&lt;br /&gt;open to recuperation, is it possible to speak of the style of singularity&lt;br /&gt;or the style of the event? What are the implications in this regard for&lt;br /&gt;the popular positioning of theory as operating from a critically&lt;br /&gt;interrogative “non-lieu”?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• If we supposedly live, read, and write in a time “after theory,” why&lt;br /&gt;should the question of theory’s past, present, and future styles still be&lt;br /&gt;considered urgent?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Is there a dialectics of the posthumous in play when raising the&lt;br /&gt;question of style in theory? Are we simply commemorating a particular&lt;br /&gt;“generation,” or “a highpoint” of theory, or even an entire episteme when&lt;br /&gt;exploring the question of style in the wake of theory? What are we&lt;br /&gt;mourning, and what are we in wait of, when reopening the question of style&lt;br /&gt;in theory?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• How does the question of style, in theory, now find itself related to&lt;br /&gt;“the post-humanities of tomorrow?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• If style is invested in writing as techne, how might the question of&lt;br /&gt;style, in theory, be reframed in the age of new media—in these times of&lt;br /&gt;greater critical attunement to what has been called technesis, of the&lt;br /&gt;quickly multiplying and reinvented resources of “electric language,” and&lt;br /&gt;of unprecedented manifestations of “archive fever”? How, in effect, is&lt;br /&gt;theory—the discourse on the letter—restyling itself in this digital age?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Is style, in theory, post-style, post-theory?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abstracts for papers, preferably stylishly brief, should be sent to&lt;br /&gt;styleintheory2009(at)um.edu.mt &lt;&lt;a href="https://secure.um.edu.mt/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=styleintheory2009%40um.edu.mt"&gt;https://secure.um.edu.mt/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=styleintheory2009%40um.edu.mt&lt;/a&gt;&gt; by 30 June 2009.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-4559151829752911334?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/4559151829752911334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/4559151829752911334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/06/style-in-theorystyling-theory.html' title='STYLE IN THEORY/STYLING THEORY, University of Malta, 26-28 Nov 2009'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-6613273443211033204</id><published>2009-04-22T04:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T04:06:30.841-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Warwick Graduate Conference in Philosophy &amp; Literature</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/phillit/currentevents/phil_lit_grad_conference/"&gt;Warwick Graduate Conference in Philosophy &amp; Literature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26 May 2009&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-6613273443211033204?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/6613273443211033204'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/6613273443211033204'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/04/warwick-graduate-conference-in.html' title='Warwick Graduate Conference in Philosophy &amp; Literature'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-4789533645195579269</id><published>2009-03-28T05:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-28T05:25:09.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Conference on Philosophy and/as Literature</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/complit/res/conference"&gt;Conference on Philosophy and/as Literature&lt;/a&gt;.  Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King’s College London, 5th and 6th May 2009.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-4789533645195579269?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/4789533645195579269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/4789533645195579269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/03/conference-on-philosophy-andas.html' title='Conference on Philosophy and/as Literature'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-7805259732086434969</id><published>2009-03-16T22:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-16T22:43:23.473-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pro and Contra: Ethical Values in Literature?</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Pro and Contra: Ethical Values in Literature?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(with reference to Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities and Fedor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov)&lt;br /&gt;Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Tuebingen&lt;br /&gt;financed by the DFG&lt;br /&gt;23.-25. April 2009&lt;br /&gt;Organisation: Prof. Dr. Sabine Döring, Dr. Catrin Misselhorn, Prof. Dr. Schamma Schahadat, Dr. Irina Wutsdorff&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Within the framework of this workshop issues concerning the ethical assessment of works of literature will be discussed from a philosophical as well as a literary perspective. Philosophers have recently provided controversial answers to the question whether, if at all, moral criteria should play any role in assessing pieces of art. With regard to literature the following questions ensue: In which way are ethical topoi and issues inscribed in literary works of art? What are the poetological consequences of ethical claims on literature as is predominantly the case in Russian culture. The novels The Brothers Karamazov by Fedor Dostoyevsky and The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil will serve as a primary point of reference.&lt;br /&gt;Speakers include Gottfried Gabriel, Berys Gaut, Peter Goldie, and Matthew Kieran&lt;br /&gt;Participation is free of charge, but the number of participants is limited and registration is required. Please contact: irina.wutsdorff(at)uni-tuebingen.de&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-7805259732086434969?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/7805259732086434969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/7805259732086434969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/03/pro-and-contra-ethical-values-in.html' title='Pro and Contra: Ethical Values in Literature?'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-5548723959163140854</id><published>2009-03-12T01:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T01:31:32.687-07:00</updated><title type='text'>LUCRETIUS: POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE</title><content type='html'>LUCRETIUS: POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An international conference at the University of Manchester (6-7 July 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The De rerum natura is at once one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by empty religio, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics. There is perhaps no other Latin poem which so requires and rewards approaches which combine the critical perspectives of literary analysis, philosophy and the history of science. This conference aims to bring together a group of scholars from a wide range of relevant disciplines to examine such issues as the ways in which its poetic form affects the presentation of the philosophical and scientific content of the poem, the relationship between physics and ethics in the poem, the tensions in the poem between the philosophical position being urged and the affective impact of some striking passages, its generic self-positioning with regard to earlier Greek didactic poetry, its key role in the dissemination and transformation of Epicureanism at Rome, and its place in the history of ancient science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The recent Cambridge Companion to Lucretius edited by Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie represents a landmark in bringing together cross-disciplinary approaches to the DRN. This conference aims to build on this important combination of different scholarly methodologies, but also to focus attention more directly on the poem itself and its multifaceted nature, particularly with regard to the interaction between its poetic form and its scientific and ethical content, and its focus on physics. This is also an ideal opportunity to re-evaluate whether existing approaches (across a range of disciplines) are sufficient for understanding as difficult and important a text as the DRN, and which new questions it might be most productive to ask about the poem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confirmed speakers include:&lt;br /&gt;Monica Gale, 'Lucretius and Hesiod’&lt;br /&gt;James Hankinson&lt;br /&gt;Brooke Holmes, 'Lucretius and the Poetics of Cosmic Indifference’&lt;br /&gt;Monte Johnson,‘Lucretius and the cause of spontaneity’&lt;br /&gt;Duncan Kennedy, 'Lucretius, Virgil and the Instauratio Magna: Knowledge as a Project of Universal Empire'&lt;br /&gt;David Konstan, ‘Lucretius and the Epicurean Attitude toward Grief’&lt;br /&gt;Daryn Lehoux, ‘Soul in a World without Spirit: The Ethics of Sensation in an Inanimate Universe’&lt;br /&gt;Andrew Morrison, ‘Nil igitur mors est ad nos? Iphianassa, the Athenian plague, and Epicurean views of death’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those interested in the conference should email Andrew Morrison in the first instance (andrew.morrison(at)manchester.ac.uk). The full programme and a booking form will appear shortly at the following webpage:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/classicsancienthistory/eventsnews/lucretius/&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-5548723959163140854?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/5548723959163140854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/5548723959163140854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2009/03/lucretius-poetry-philosophy-and-science.html' title='LUCRETIUS: POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, AND SCIENCE'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-7248173369842331377</id><published>2008-12-16T02:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T02:05:19.432-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MA in Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex</title><content type='html'>The MA in Literature and Philosophy builds on a strong tradition of &lt;br /&gt;collaboration between the two disciplines at Sussex. It offers students &lt;br /&gt;the opportunity to examine central questions that arise at the &lt;br /&gt;intersection of philosophy and literature within a genuinely &lt;br /&gt;interdisciplinary context. Research for the MA is supported by the &lt;br /&gt;Centre for Literature and Philosophy and numerous research seminars run &lt;br /&gt;by the participating departments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Centre website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/index.php&lt;br /&gt;MA website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-7.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Areas in which research is supported and encouraged: style and &lt;br /&gt;narrative, literary autonomy, truth and fiction, imagination and &lt;br /&gt;emotion, ethics and literature, contexts and limits of interpretation, &lt;br /&gt;approaches to reading including hermeneutics, deconstruction, &lt;br /&gt;phenomenology, psychoanalysis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the core course, Explorations in Philosophy and Literature, &lt;br /&gt;specialists in the field address explicitly the question of the &lt;br /&gt;relation of the two disciplines through engagement with authors from &lt;br /&gt;different literary and philosophical traditions. Authors discussed &lt;br /&gt;include: Adorno, Benjamin, Cavell, Derrida, Freud, Heidegger, Lear, &lt;br /&gt;Levinas, Murdoch, Nietzsche, Nussbaum, Rorty, Walton, Williams, &lt;br /&gt;Wittgenstein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information, please contact the convenor: Dr Katerina &lt;br /&gt;Deligiorgi, K.Deligiorgi (at) sussex.ac.uk&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-7248173369842331377?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/7248173369842331377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/7248173369842331377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/12/ma-in-literature-and-philosophy.html' title='MA in Literature and Philosophy, University of Sussex'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-6047188009343610378</id><published>2008-12-16T02:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-16T02:04:10.178-08:00</updated><title type='text'>MA in Philosophy and Literature, University of East Anglia, Norwich</title><content type='html'>MA in Philosophy and Literature&lt;br /&gt;University of East Anglia, Norwich&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The MA in Philosophy and Literature offers interdisciplinary study of the two subjects, and explores at many levels the deep links between them. The course is an ideal supplement to an undergraduate degree in either philosophy or literature, and an excellent preparation for advanced research work in either field. Students can choose from a wide range of modules in both subjects, while sharing a research workshop and core units jointly taught by philosophers and literary specialists. This makes the MA a genuinely joint degree, and not one where the two subjects are only taught in parallel.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;UEA has a thriving community of 30-40 postgraduate students in Philosophy, and 80-90 in the Literature and Creative Writing. The atmosphere in both schools is friendly, rigorous and supportive, and the staff-student relationship is excellent. Several eminent specialists working in the area make Philosophy and Literature a major focus of research at UEA.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For further information contact Dr. Mark Rowe: mark.rowe (at) uea.ac.uk&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-6047188009343610378?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/6047188009343610378'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/6047188009343610378'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/12/ma-in-philosophy-and-literature.html' title='MA in Philosophy and Literature, University of East Anglia, Norwich'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-7900992130585190153</id><published>2008-11-03T05:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T05:54:04.976-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dante and Transgression</title><content type='html'>CALL FOR PAPERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dante and Transgression&lt;br /&gt;The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference of the Nordic Dante Network&lt;br /&gt;20-22 August 2009&lt;br /&gt;University of Tampere, Finland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abstract deadline: 31 December 2008&lt;br /&gt;Conference language: English&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keynote address:&lt;br /&gt;Prof. William Franke (Vanderbilt University), *Language and Transcendence in Dante's Paradiso*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inspired by Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) poetic imagination, the Fourth International Conference of the Nordic Dante Network will focus on ways of transgressing literary, philosophical, linguistic, moral and other rules. Dante may be understood in the sense of both Dante the Medieval Poet - including the earlier traditions that shaped his work - and Dante the Classic, as viewed through later reception, art and culture. We welcome abstracts on all topics and from all disciplines. Especially encouraged are papers addressing the following themes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confluence and conflicts between&lt;br /&gt;o virtue and vice in fact and fiction&lt;br /&gt;o literature, philosophy, (negative) theology&lt;br /&gt;o medieval, modern and postmodern Dante&lt;br /&gt;o art and politics (exilic imagination)&lt;br /&gt;o poetics and rhetoric&lt;br /&gt;o Latin and vernacular in medieval literature and/or Dante's oeuvre&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All papers are presented in plenary sessions which means that a limited number of proposals can be accepted. (Apart from the keynote speaker, the participants are responsible for their costs of travel and accommodation. The conference fee will be kept as low as possible.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The abstracts (max. 400 words, in English) should be e-mailed to paivi.mehtonen[at]uta.fi by &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;31 December 2008&lt;/span&gt;. Welcome!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Organiser, on behalf of the Nordic Dante Network:&lt;br /&gt;Päivi Mehtonen (Academy Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor) paivi.mehtonen[at]uta.fi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In collaboration with:&lt;br /&gt;Glossa: The Society for Medieval Studies in Finland&lt;br /&gt;Trivium: Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies&lt;br /&gt;Department of Literature and the Arts, University of Tampere&lt;br /&gt;Alfred Kordelin Foundation&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-7900992130585190153?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/7900992130585190153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/7900992130585190153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/11/dante-and-transgression.html' title='Dante and Transgression'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-5996847743202110724</id><published>2008-10-28T09:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-28T09:31:24.858-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ACLA 2009: Global Languages, Local Cultures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=151"&gt;Literary Forms, Philosophical Uses&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=153"&gt;Languages of the Aesthetic: Art and Finitude from Baumgarten to Badiou&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=76"&gt;Literary Meditations on Philosophy and Religion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=195"&gt;Our Own Greece? Philosophy, Syncretism and Indigeneity in the Americas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=81"&gt;The Literary (as) Sovereign: Philosophy and its Others in Spain and Latin America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=256"&gt;Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn: Thinking Literature Between Psychoanalysis and Philosophy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-5996847743202110724?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/5996847743202110724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/5996847743202110724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/10/acla-2009-global-languages-local.html' title='ACLA 2009: Global Languages, Local Cultures'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-671247199700132052</id><published>2008-07-06T09:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-06T09:10:04.224-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Call for Papers: Ethics and Literature</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Philosophia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Philosophical Quarterly of Israel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Editor in Chief: Asa Kasher&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call for Papers: Ethics and Literature&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Journal PHILOSOPHIA, Philosophical Quarterly of Israel,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;published by Springer, seeks submissions on Ethics and Literature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are interested in articles on issues such as: relationships&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;between moral philosophy and literature, literature as a mode of&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;moral investigation, moral 'effectiveness' in literature, the&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;practice of ethical criticism, and similar ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently appeared in this series:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       Ethics and Literature: Introduction, Adia Mendelson-Maoz (2007, 35;2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       The Ethical Criticism of Art: A New Mapping of the Territory, Alessandro Giovannelli (2007, 35;2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       Agents of Reform?: Children Literature and Philosophy, Karen L. McGavock (2007, 35:2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       The Ethics of Non-Realist Fiction: Morality's Catch-22, James Harold (2007, 35;2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       Literature, Ethics, and Richard Rorty's Pragmatist Theory of Interpretation, Kalle Puolakka (2008, 36;1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       Learning from Tolstoy: Forgetfulness and Recognition in Literature Edification, Ira Newman (2008, 36;1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       Community, communication and Multiplicity in Proust, Patience Moll (2008, 36;1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·       Moral Vices and Artistic Virtues: Eugene Onegin and Alice, Stephanie Patridge (2008, 36; 2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For information on PHILOSOPHIA, please see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.springer.com/west/home/philosophy?SGWID=4-40385-70-47455715-0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For any query, please feel free to contact:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adia Mendelson-Maoz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;adiamen (at) openu.ac.il&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adia Mendelson-Maoz, PhD&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-671247199700132052?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/671247199700132052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/671247199700132052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/07/call-for-papers-ethics-and-literature.html' title='Call for Papers: Ethics and Literature'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-4558616996851329845</id><published>2008-04-09T00:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-09T00:18:06.245-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Literature and Truth/Littérature et Vérité</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://http://www.philosophie.ch/events/esap/es_single.php?action=date&amp;eventid=124"&gt;Literature and Truth/Littérature et Vérité&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;University of Geneva&lt;br /&gt;May 14 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-4558616996851329845?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/4558616996851329845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/4558616996851329845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/04/literature-and-truthlittrature-et-vrit.html' title='Literature and Truth/Littérature et Vérité'/><author><name>jukka mikkonen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09216304759064411227</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7562278723804070208.post-8894994974913026431</id><published>2008-03-19T23:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-19T23:51:56.743-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Philosophy as Literature - A special issue of "The European Legacy"‏</title><content type='html'>Call for Papers: PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Special Issue of “The European Legacy” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The European Legacy” hereby invites contributions on the topic of “Philosophy as Literature.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The issue will feature a conversation on the relationship philosophy-literature with GIUSEPPE MAZZOTTA (Sterling Professor of the Humanities for Italian, Yale University), ALEXANDER NEHAMAS (Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Princeton University) &amp; SIMON CRITCHLEY (Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The European Legacy,” published by Routledge, is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas: &lt;br /&gt;http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10848770.asp&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This special issue is scheduled for late 2009. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CALL FOR PAPERS: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like novelists, historians or columnists, philosophers, too, are writers. They make sophisticated use of language, and employ – whether deliberately or not – specific rhetorical and stylistic devices, as well as certain repertoires of metaphors, images and symbols. As writers, philosophers also have to adjust their writing to specific audiences, tailor it to serve specific purposes, and strategically choose one genre over another, with all its rules, protocols, and constraints. In short, it is crucial for philosophers – if they are to persuade readers – to advance their ideas following certain aesthetic rules, rhetorical procedures and strategies of persuasion. This has led some authors to speak of “the literariness of philosophical texts” (Berel Lang) as something indistinguishable from the philosophical substance and relevance of those texts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A writer’s relationship to language, writing and weaving of narratives in general is always complex. For, if we are to believe Heidegger, although “man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, …in fact language remains the master of man.” Therefore, it might well be the case that – as often happen with writers – philosophers, too, go through some peculiar experiences: sometimes, for example, they become so completely seduced by language that they almost lose themselves in the act of writing and come to utter whatever language compels them to; some other times, they become so deeply caught up in their own discourse that it becomes difficult for them to separate from it: on such occasions they are not very different from those novelists who end up becoming characters in the narratives they are weaving. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The implication is that a work of philosophy might well be seen as a work of (literary) art, as an autonomous world, for whose creation the author’s personal vision, imagination, playfulness and inventiveness play a major role. In other words, according to this view, “The Critique of Pure Reason” is, in a fundamental way, much closer to “Hamlet” or “The Brothers Karamazov” than to, say, “On the Origin of Species.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this in mind, some scholars of philosophy have been in a position to say that philosophy is nothing other than literature. Others, more cautious, have allowed philosophy to be literature only to some degree or under circumstances. Then, there are, of course, those for whom philosophy does not have anything to do with literature.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We invite submissions dealing with the multifaceted relationship between philosophy and literature, some aspects of which have been pointed to above. Interdisciplinary approaches (combining, for example, philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history) are particularly encouraged. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are only some of the possible topics: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- The employment of literary categories (genre, tropes, narrative, plot, point of view, etc.) in the production of philosophical texts&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- The genres of philosophical writing (dialogue, treatise, meditation, journal article, etc) and their significance for the content of those writings; how exactly the adoption of a certain genre shapes the philosophizing in question &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Philosophical styles: styles of writing / styles of philosophizing; “the anatomy of the philosophical style” (Berel Lang)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- The variety of literary practices in the history of philosophy &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- The philosophers’ rhetoric; philosophy of rhetoric / rhetoric of philosophy &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Canons and canonization in the history of philosophy&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Author/authorship/authority in the production of philosophical texts; author’s “voice”; the use of personae, masks, masquerades &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Philosophy as expression of the self (philosophy and autobiography)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- The art of the “literary philosophers” (Plato, Augustine, Giordano Bruno, Vico, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Unamuno, Benjamin, Sartre, Camus, Cioran, etc) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Recent philosophizing on the relationship philosophy-literature (contributions dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Paul Ricoeur, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Theodor Adorno, Stanley Cavell, Alexander Nehamas, Slavoj Zizek, Jean-Luc Nancy, Berel Lang, Iris Murdoch, Simon Critchley, etc) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- Literary theorists/historians on the relationship philosophy-literature (contributions dedicated to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Rene Wellek, Wolfgang Iser, Hayden White, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Umberto Eco, etc) &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Length: 6000 words&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All articles and reviews submitted to “The European Legacy” undergo peer-review. Manuscripts and Notes, typed double-spaced, should be submitted to the Guest Editor as e-mail attachments, using WordPerfect or Microsoft Word. The author’s full address should be supplied as a footnote to the title page. Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;You can submit your contributions to: bradatan@hotmail.com  Please allow at least 4-6 months for the review process and editorial decisions. Receipt of materials will be confirmed by email. Unless otherwise noted in this Call for Papers, the Instructions for Authors on the journal’s webpage are adopted for this issue: &lt;br /&gt;http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1084-8770&amp;linktype=44&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-8894994974913026431?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/8894994974913026431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/8894994974913026431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/03/philosophy-as-literature-special-issue.html' title='Philosophy as Literature - A special issue of &quot;The European Legacy&quot;‏'/><author><name>jukka 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Literature</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-2-3.html"&gt;Literature and Philosophy/Philosophy and Literature&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;University of Sussex&lt;br /&gt;12–14 June 2008&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7562278723804070208-3741117224937836958?l=philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/3741117224937836958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7562278723804070208/posts/default/3741117224937836958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://philosophyofliterature.blogspot.com/2008/01/literature-and-philosophyphilosophy-and.html' title='Literature and Philosophy/Philosophy and Literature'/><author><name>jukka 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