| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Wondering about Transcendence -- Metaphysical Realism and Antirealism -- Wisdom Epistemology -- Anti-definitionalism -- Definition by Four Causes -- Morality and Literature |
| Summary |
"Literature utters the unutterable, not through logic, not through science, not through argument, but through a pitch of eloquence so pronounced the conscientious reader cannot fail to pay attention. Louis Groarke argues that literature is an honorific term we use to describe texts that are so overpowering they lift us to an encounter with an ineffable ultimate that is beyond logical or scientific explanation. In Uttering the Unutterable, he proposes a wisdom epistemology that identifies an experience of transcendence as the defining criterion of literature. Offering four mutually reinforcing definitions of literature in line with Aristotle's theory of four causes, Groarke compares the experience of reading to Aristotle's account of philosophical contemplation (theoria), and maintains that literature has inevitable ethical content. Moving beyond the Aristotelianism of the late Chicago School, Groarke presents a new synthesis that breaks through essentialist stereotypes and contends that literature, like religion, points to an ineffable transcendental, to something beyond what we can adequately explain, prove, systematize, quantify, or enclose in a theory. Uttering the Unutterable explores how Aristotelian philosophy provides the most complete and compelling account of literature for philosophers, literary critics, and theorists."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Aquinas |
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Arnold |
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Babbitt |
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Barthes |
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Baudrillard |
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Bernard Suits |
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Chicago School |
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Culler |
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Derrida |
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Diogenes Laertius |
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Eagleton |
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Fish |
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Foucault |
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God |
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John Gardner |
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Kant |
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Nicomachean Ethics |
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Occams razor |
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Plato |
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Pocklington |
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Poetics |
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Presocratics |
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Saussure |
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Schmitt |
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Socrates |
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Sydney |
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Tupper |
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Winters |
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Wittgenstein |
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criticism |
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death of the author |
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divine |
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essentialism |
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family resemblance |
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final cause |
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formalism |
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four causes |
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genius |
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inspiration |
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literary theory |
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materialism |
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metaphor |
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poetry |
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post-modern |
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reader response |
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realism |
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structuralism |
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telos |
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theoria |
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transcendence |
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wonder |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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| SUBJECT |
Aristotle fast |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Reading -- Philosophy
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Religion and literature.
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Criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Criticism
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Reading -- Philosophy
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Religion and literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0228015227 |
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9780228015239 |
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0228015235 |
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9780228015222 |
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