On Literary Theory and Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Richard Freadman, Lloyd Reinhardt

      Pages 1-12

3. Exchanges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Self

      1. Deconstruction and Critical Practice: Gayatri Spivak on <i>The Prelude</i>

         • Richard Freadman, Seumas Miller

         Pages 16-40

      2. On the Alien: Interpretation after Deconstruction

         • Ian Saunders

         Pages 41-58

   3. Ethics

      1. F. R. Leavis and the Moral in Literature

         • Christopher Cordner

         Pages 60-81

      2. On Being Proper

         • Kevin Hart

         Pages 82-94

   4. Interpretation

      1. Interpreting Fictions

         • Gregory Currie

         Pages 96-112

      2. Remarks on Currie

         • Anne Freadman

         Pages 113-140

   5. Language

      1. Xenophobia: At the Border of Philosophy and Literature

         • Robyn Ferrell

         Pages 142-161

      2. Theories of Meaning and Literary Theory

         • Stephen Gaukroger

         Pages 162-183

4. Essays Singular

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Limited Think: How Not to Read Derrida

      • Christopher Norris

      Pages 187-212

   3. The Two Paradigms: Is a Dialogue Possible?

      • Horst Ruthrof

      Pages 213-235

   4. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche’s Second

      • Alexander Nehamas

      Pages 236-252

5. Back Matter

   Pages 253-281

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The principle aim of this book is to explore the relationship between contemporary literary theory and analytic philosophy. The volume addresses this issue in two ways: first, through four exchanges between, on the one hand, proponents of avant-garde literary theory and, on the other, proponents of analytic philosophy (or of related literary critical positions); and second, through three cross-disciplinary essays on the relationship in question. Central topics in the volume include Self, Ethics, Interpretation, Language and characterisations of 'analytic' and 'continental' philosophy.

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Interpretation
• Jacques Derrida
• literary theory
• philosophy

• Department of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

  Richard Freadman

• Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Lloyd Reinhardt

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