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Literature and personal values
- Title
- Literature and personal values / Patrick Grant.
- Author
- Grant, Patrick, 1941-
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
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Details
- Description
- x, 255 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Literature and criticism make us pressingly aware of how language operates through an elusive dialectic of presence and absence, making a world available to us and simultaneously separating us from it. One way to approach the idea of the person--an idea that literature and criticism have done much to shape and confirm--is by interpreting it within such a dialectic, as an evolving and evaluative term. A series of chapters brings to bear on these issues the vocabularies of hermeneutics and phenomenology, scientific verification, philosophy of imagination, Judaeo-Christian religion, and Marxism. A conclusion attempts a synthesis describing some vital relations between literature and culture, focussed on the category of the person.
- Throughout, the theoretical positions are developed by means of exegesis of appropriate literary texts.
- Subject
- Literature > Philosophy
- Literature > Aesthetics
- Values in literature
- Social values in literature
- Philosophy, Modern
- literary theory
- Literaturtheorie
- Menschenbild
- Kulturphilosophie
- Identität
- Person
- Valeurs (philosophie) > Dans la littérature
- Valeurs sociales > Dans la littérature
- Littérature > Philosophie
- Littérature > Esthétique
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-250) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction. Personal Presence: Stating the Question. Words and Deeds: On Reading Swift and Synge. Critical Practice: Recent Contexts -- 2. Fundamentals. Belonging: on Hermeneutics and Phenomenology. Flaw: Augustine and Original Sin. Retrieval: Heidegger and the Structures of Concern -- 3. Validation. Testing: the Problem of Common Experience. Repeatability: on the Patterns of Intent and Desire. Emergence: Literature as Psychoanalysis -- 4. Imagination. Imagination and the Divisions of Time. Fantasy. Images and Ideas -- 5. Religious Promises. Apocalypse Now. The Suffering Saviour. Perennial Philosophy -- 6. Social Communities. Marx and the Presence of Others. The Alien Inside: Reading The Merchant of Venice.
- ISBN
- 0312075480
- 9780312075484
- 0333541596
- 9780333541593
- LCCN
- 91032343
- OCLC
- ocm24550284
- 24550284
- SCSB-1953239
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library