Fictive Narrative Philosophy: How Fiction Can ACT as Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367732950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str.

Michael Boylan

Opis

This book argues that some literary works indeed can make their own unique claims in different areas of philosophy, a method termed fictive narrative philosophy. It outlines detailed conceptions of fictive narrative philosophy, and brings this definition to bear on individual authors and works that can be considered prime examples of it.

Recenzje

"Boylan makes an important contribution to the philosophy of literature by using his idea of the personal worldview to understand how we engage with fictive narrative philosophy and offering an explanation as to why that is pedagogically valuable . . . [He] offers a new conception of philosophical writing that has implications for how we understand the nature of argument and argumentation." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

Part I: The Structure of the Traditional Paradigm

Chapter One: Narrative Fiction as Philosophically Interpreted in the Ancient Western World

Chapter Two: Narrative Fiction as Philosophically Interpreted in the Modern and Contemporary Western World

Part II: The Structure of the New Paradigm

Chapter Three: What makes an Artifact Philosophy?

Chapter Four: Literature as Philosophy

Chapter Five: The Special Logic of Fictive Narrative Philosophy

Chapter Six: Constructional Devices

Chapter Seven: How do we Judge Fictive Narrative Philosophy?

Chapter Eight: When Should we use Direct Discourse Philosophy and when Fictive Narrative Philosophy?

Chapter Nine: How Might Fictive Narrative Philosophy Change the Academy?

Appendix I: First Order Metaethical Principles: My own Philosophical Work on Ethics and Personhood Theory as a First Step for ‘Ethics & Fictive Narrative Philosophy’

Appendix II: My own work in Fictive Narrative Philosophy

O autorze

Michael Boylan is professor of philosophy at Marymount University. He is the author of 34 books and 138 essays covering literature, ethics/political philosophy, and ancient philosophy of science. He has been an invited lecturer at major universities in 14 countries on 5 continents. He as served on national advisory committees in the U.S.A. and has been a fellow at think tanks such as the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution.