1. Introduction.- 2. Epic in Aristotle and Vico.- 3. Idealism and Romanticism.- 4. Kierkegaard, Irony and Subjectivity.- 5. Lukács on Subjectivity and History (Introduced through Nietzsche).- 6. Bakhtin, Ethics and Time.- 7. Mimesis, Humanism and History.- 8. Mimetic Limits.- 9. The Absolute Novel.- 10. The Philosophical Novel.- Bibliography.- Index.
Barry Stocker teaches philosophy at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. He is the author of Derrida on Deconstruction (2006) and Kierkegaard on Politics (2014). He is the editor of Post-Analytic Tractatus (2004) and Derrida: Basic Writings (2007). He is the co-editor of Nietzsche as Political Philosopher (2014).