Tag: "philosophy & literature"

Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, and public intellectual. Scott Parker asks him about a particular kind of community.
[Issue 116: October/November 2016: Interview]

The Philosophy of Poetry

Roger Caldwell finds philosophy & poetry to be mutually alien.
[Issue 114: June/July 2016: Books]

Reading, Writing, Thinking

The first few articles in this issue look at literature and its contributions to ethics, to political philosophy, and to our understanding of the nature of language. We asked the very philosophical novelist and short story writer Tibor Fischer to kick things off with a few words about the relationship between philosophy and literature.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013: Editorial]

Reading Jane Austen as a Moral Philosopher

Thomas Rodham keenly observes Jane Austen’s exacting ethical expertise.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013: Reading, Writing, Thinking]

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder
[Issue 94: January/February 2013: Cartoon]

Democracy & Tragedy

Mark Chou argues that the performance of tragedies helped establish democracy.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013: Reading, Writing, Thinking]

“Nobody Said Anything”

Meghan Bidwell ponders language and silence in the short stories of Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway.
[Issue 94: January/February 2013: Reading, Writing, Thinking]

Encouraging Communication Through Imagination

Shudong Chen communicates about the importance of communication.
[Issue 89: March/April 2012: Articles]

The Isabel Dalhousie novels of Alexander McCall Smith

Patricia Cleveland-Peck detects philosophy in the books of Alexander McCall Smith.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011: Books]

The Fourfold Loves of C.S. Lewis and Benedict XVI

David Goicoechea compares two Christian understandings of love.
[Issue 85: July/August 2011: Philosophy & Love]