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"This book examines allegories and metaphors that best exemplify each thinker's ideologies. The author's approach allows readers to gain a greater understanding of each thinker's ideas through the lens of metaphor and this stimulates imaginative discussions and more thoughtful r…
Austere and uncompromising, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had no use for the avant-garde art works of his own time. He refused to formulate an aesthetic, declaring that one can no more define the "beautiful" than determine "what sort of coffee tastes good." And yet many of…
The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experiment…
"Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or post-metaphysical thinking. Habermas and Literature brings Habermasian…
"Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or post-metaphysical thinking. Habermas and Literature brings Habermasian…
Beginning with Erich Auerbach's reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of "Literatures of the world". Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice…
This work represents the first organic study that investigates the genesis of the ideas of Italian modernism, that is of that fruitful moment of Italian literature, in the first decades of the last century, in which there was a definitive crisis and a reversal of traditional val…
This work represents the first organic study that investigates the genesis of the ideas of Italian modernism, that is of that fruitful moment of Italian literature, in the first decades of the last century, in which there was a definitive crisis and a reversal of traditional val…
"This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected…
