Joyce's Ulysses: Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780190842253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Philip Kitcher

Recenzje

This excellent volume does an admirable job of examining Ulysses from a philosophical perspective without, as too often happens, becoming reductionist in its approach to either philosophy or literature...The six essays it contains...work together in a number of complex and extremely suggestive ways...The volume thus creates the feeling of an intelligent conversation between friends (each with their own distinctive point of view) rather than a forced attempt to cover a series of topics.... [T]his volume is to be highly commended for its discovery of a genuinely philosophic approach to Ulysses, one that does not attempt to dig out the hidden 'message' buried in the writing, but that understands that the writing itself is the message...As this volume has admirably shown, Joyce's philosophy is not a lesson he included somewhere in Ulysses, it is Ulysses.

O autorze

Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author of numerous books, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of Science and Philosophy. He has been named a "Friend of Darwin" by the National Committee on Science Education, and received a Lannan Foundation Notable Book Award for Living With Darwin (Oxford University Press, 2007). In 2019, he was awarded the Rescher Medal for contributions to systematic philosophy.