{"title":"Making Sense of Suffering: Merleau-Ponty and Keats's \"Vale of Soul-Making\"","authors":"David Lo","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Unlike the traditional view of suffering in philosophy and theology as a deviation from the ideal, John Keats's vale of soul-making attends to the potentiality of the suffering body in the world for fashioning the identities of the modern subject. Keats thereby exhibits a notion of the body that shows more affinity with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's emphasis on the primary role of perception in knowledge than with John Locke's empiricist account of sensation. Turning to the prereflective experience, Merleau-Ponty concedes the limits of reasoning in the face of an opaque world and hints at a quality similar to Keats's negative capability.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upbringing and Agency: Three Perspectives","authors":"S. Justman","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:According to the authors of the widely discussed Coddling of the American Mind, the protections received in childhood by today's college students made them the fragile souls who have demanded and often obtained protection from \"unsafe\" ideas. The authors' analysis implicates larger questions than they seem quite prepared to discuss—in particular, what it means to be an agent as opposed to a hapless product of one's upbringing. Investigating this issue, I consult two renowned works of literature that examine the constricted upbringing of women, who were understood as fragile beings long before iGen arrived on the scene.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43718570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jealousy and the Sense of Self: Unamuno and the Contemporary Philosophy of Emotion","authors":"I. V. Ferran","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores jealousy in Miguel de Unamuno's drama El otro. Drawing on contemporary philosophy of emotion, I argue that for the Spanish author, jealousy gives the subject a sense of self. The paper begins by embedding Unamuno's philosophical anthropology in the context of contemporary emotion theory. It then presents the drama as an investigation into the affective dimension of self-identity. The third section offers an analysis of jealousy as an emotion of self-assessment. The final section discusses how this drama can be regarded as a piece of philosophical work.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48493417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Deus in Animo\": Kantian Ugliness and the Narrative Aesthetic of Frankenstein","authors":"Karen Hadley","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Where they are based in Immanuel Kant's categories of the sublime or monstrous, recent aesthetically based accounts reflect the conventional view of Victor Frankenstein's creature as a monster. This project instead engages Kant's category of the ugly, which makes possible a dialectical, narrative-based aesthetic, one folding both Victor's and the creature's interiority to within the social form of disinterested play otherwise known as intersubjectivity. Robert Walton's encounter with the creature provides a fleeting example of this phenomenon: employing Mojca Kuplen's \"positive aesthetic of disgust,\" it offers a stimulus to revised forms of ethics or agency, thus invoking Theodor Adorno's end of aesthetic inquiry.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45065366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Live a Meaningful Life: Reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through Heideggerian Techne","authors":"Tara Cuthbertson","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an effort to contribute to the burgeoning practice of reading literature through a Heideggerian lens that has been jumpstarted by such scholars as Pol Vandevelde, Jonathan Bate, Dominic Griffiths, and William Galperin, this article explores the various ways that Martin Heidegger's question concerning technology can shed light on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I examine how Heidegger's \"true technology,\" that is, techne (\"poiesis\" or \"bringing-forth\") parallels the Romantic use of autopoiesis. Both Heideggerian philosophy and Shelley's Frankenstein exhibit instances in which techne and other acts of poiesis enable the subject access to an ecstatic experience of time and being.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44913857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"German Romantic Philosophy: \"Underhand Theology\"?","authors":"T. Ziolkowski","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Friedrich Nietzsche generalized his attack on Christianity to include German philosophy, which he called an \"underhand theology.\" He was referring primarily to the post-Kantian philosophy of German Romantic thinkers educated at the famous Tübingen theological seminary. This essay tests Nietzsche's characterization by examining the jointly conceived \"Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism\" and other early works by three of the most famous seminarians from the school: F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel, and poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who shared quarters and ideas in the seminary in the final decade of the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42262622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky: Happiness and Subjectivity","authors":"P. Dehnel","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper analyzes the influence that The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky exerted on Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical ideas. I argue that this impact was not limited exclusively to Wittgenstein's moral certainty but that it played an important role in his concept of the subject as the limit of the world, as formulated in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. I attempt to show that this concept is embedded in literature, particularly in Dostoevsky, who describes liminal situations—crime, sin, guilt—in which the human being is at the edge of the world, at its boundary, as if within and at the same time outside.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66275477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Montaigne's Perfect Friendship and Perfect Society: Philosophical Fictions as Useful Reminders","authors":"Christopher Edelman","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Michel de Montaigne's \"Of friendship\" is often read as a celebration of his relationship with his late friend Étienne de La Boétie. This is not wrong but, rather, incomplete. Drawing on the chapters of Montaigne's Essais that immediately follow \"Of friendship,\" this essay argues that Montaigne's chapter on friendship is part of a larger project in which he employs philosophical fictions—specifically, his \"perfect friendship\" with La Boétie and the \"perfect society\" that he depicts in \"Of cannibals\"—to reorient us in our relationships not only with our friends but also with our enemies.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47964167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Having Three Names","authors":"B. B. Suttle","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43073106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MacNeice the Heraclitean","authors":"J. Lesher","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Many of the poems and essays of Louis MacNeice display a knowledge of the philosophical theories he studied during his undergraduate years in Merton College, Oxford. In his \"Variation on Heraclitus\" and in several other poems, MacNeice alludes to the \"doctrine of flux\" that Plato attributed to the Greek thinker Heraclitus of Ephesus. Though the view of Heraclitus as the champion of flux is controversial, it provided MacNeice with a framework within which to reflect on the conditions essential to living a free and productive life.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48014335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}