The Anatomy of Philosophical Style: Literary Philosophy and the Philosophy of Literature

Abstract

Part 1 Philosophical discourse and literary form: the anatomy of philosophical style the plots and acts of philosophical genre Descartes between method and style philosophy in its history - two views philosophical humours nostalgia for the future, waiting for the past - post-modernism in philosophy. Part 2 Literary form and non-literary fact: Hamlet's grandmother(s) autobiography as a matter of literary fact the animal-in-the-text - fables and literary origins the politics of interpretation - Spinoza's modernist turn the praxis of criticism.