A collection of essays, grounded in state-of-the-art research that explores contemporary debates at the interface between literature and philosophy. It brings together diverse schools of thought and provides both a useful overview and an examination of one of the most fascinating cross-disciplinary encounters in the humanities today.

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ANDREW BENJAMIN Professor of Critical Theory in Design and Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia BRETT BOURBON Assistant Professor and Director of the English Undergraduate Honours Programme in the Department of English at Stanford University, USA JOSH COHEN Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK ROBERT EAGLESTONE Royal Holloway, University of London, UK MICHAEL ESKIN Columbia University, New York, USA JENNIFER ANNA GOSETTI-FERENCEI Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York City, USA GARY L. HAGBERG James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College and Director of the Programme in Philosophy and the Arts RICHARD J. LANE Professor of English at Malaspina-University College, British Columbia, Canada ANTHONY LARSON is Maître de Conférences in English Studies at the Université du Maine le Mans, France SIMON MALPAS Lecturer in English at Edinburgh University, UK MARY C. RAWLINSON Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University in New York, USA RUPERT READ Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of the Literature and Philosophy Programme at the University of East Anglia, UK JONATHAN RÉE holds visiting positions at Roehampton University and the Royal College of Art, UK RALPH STREHLE Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK DERVAL TUBRIDY Lecturer in English and VisualCulture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK BRYAN VESCIO Assistant Professor of English and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA

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Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Introduction; D.Rudrum PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY First Lessons: Giles Deleuze and The Concept of Literature; A.Larson 'The Absence of Origin': Beckett and Contemporary French Philosophy; D.Tubridy PART II: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN ANGLO-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY The Pattern that Literature Makes: Davidson, Pragmatism, and the Reconstruction of the Literary; B.Vescio Autobiographical Memory: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and the 'Descent into Ourselves'; G.L.Hagberg What Can My Nonsense Tell Me About You; B.Bourbon PART III: ENCOUNTERS WITH LITERATURE IN GERMAN PHILOSOPHY A Risky Business: Internal Time and Objective Time in Husserl and Woolf; R.Strehle The Poetics of Thinking; J.A.Gosetti-Ferencei Construction without Theory: Oblique Reflections on Walter Benjamin's Goethe; R.J.Lane PART IV: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY: THE QUESTION OF ETHICS Liminal Agencies: Literature as Moral Philosophy; M.C.Rawlinson Is Forgiveness Ever Possible At All?; R.Read PART V: READING PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE Who is Speaking? - Brodsky, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Question of Genre, M.Eskin Literary Potential: The Release of Criticism; A.Benjamin Gibberophobia: Philosophy, Fear and the Plain Style; J.Rée Philosophy's Metaphors: Dennett, Midgely and Derrida; R.Eaglestone Hearing Voices: A Dialogical Reading of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ; D.Rudrum PART VI: CONCLUSION: APPROACHING THE END No Matter: Aesthetic Theory and the Self-Annihilating Artwork; J.Cohen Form, Reflection, Disclosure: Literary Aesthetics and Contemporary Criticism; S.Malpas Index